Preparing the USB flash drive

This section describes the procedure of preparing the USB drive that will be used during the update.
Ensure that your USB flash drive is blanks and formatted to FAT32.

Copying the update utility to the USB flash drive

  1. Download the latest version of the Aptio V AMI Firmware Update Utility (AFU), which is available at the following link: https://www.ami.com/bios-uefi-utilities/#aptiov
  2. Unzip the archive Aptio_V_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility.zip.
  3. Unzip the archive BgtEfi64.zip found in the sub-folder Aptio_V_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility/bgt/bgtefi/64/5.03.
  4. Copy the file BgtEfix64.efi found in the sub-folder Aptio_V_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility/bgt/bgtefi/64/5.03/BgtEfi64/BgtEfi64 to the root folder of your USB flash drive.

Downloading BIOS version R2.30

  1. In your Mystormshield personal area, go to Downloads > STORMSHIELD NETWORK SECURITY > TOOLS > STORMSHIELD NETWORK SECURITY-TOOLS > SN3100 BIOS R230 to download the file SN3100_BIOS_R230.zip.
  2. Verify the integrity of the downloaded file using its SHA256 hash:
    14fb5675c619ccba4342807530fc9f90c8a82e954df024fb64449d7efd4aab5a.
  3. Unzip the archive SN3100_BIOS_R230.zip to the root folder of your USB flash drive.
  4. Verify the root folder of your USB flash drive. You should find the following files and folders in it:

Contents of the SN3100_BIOS_230.zip archive

  1. Verify the integrity of the binary file SN3100_R230_BIOS_Guard.bin using its SHA256 hash:
    036113e77edaf0f6eda51ba7edbb733bbd1cfc7167110fbeda9fad2ef4967f57.

  2. Verify as well the integrity of the binary file FWUpdate_CFL_H_Consuner_120.95.2489.bin by using its SHA256 hash: 00319e0bf2b9078f3c41b1b7c799e87b27335fe551e3eb37aad37c0270220f4f.

Your USB flash drive is ready to update BIOS to version R2.30.