First, sorry about my English. I'm referring to the thread 'z820 e5-2600 v2 ivy bridge upgrade'
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/z820-e5-2600-v2-ivy-bridge-upgrade/td-p/5086052
which is closed (marked as solved) but I'm not satisfied with the solution.
I own HP Z820 which has the boot block date 12/28/2011 so not possible to upgrade to v2 technology (without replacing the MB). Recently I've bought a HP DL360p G8 server that I also wanted to upgrade to use E5-2600v2 CPUs. Flashed the latest firmware and nothing - the same problem like with Z820 - boot block date unchanged and Ivy bridge not working. So I dug a little and found this:
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03911173
I flashed the server using this ISO:
https://downloads.hpe.com/pub/softlib2/software1/cd/p355461430/v96920/hp-ivb_update-1.80-2.iso
and it's working! Boot block date changed to 03/05/2013 and the server is running E5-2695 v2 now. Since same ISO is used to upgrade few different BL, DL, SL and ML servers maybe it can be also used to flash Z820? I'm unfortunately not skilled to look into this ISO but maybe some of you is or someone will risk and just try to run it on Z workstation.
I hope this might be a new solution.
regards
krupmarc
