Hi, folks,
Since I've gotten a total of one response in days on the HP forum,
maybe the collective mind here has an answer.... As I've mentioned in
other posts, we have an HP dl580 g5 that started throwing ECC errors.
But wait, it's worse: memory is mirrored.... And the thing is fully
populated with 32 DIMMs.
I took my best guess, pulled the matching set of DIMMs, and took two
off of one of the four riser boards to replace them. I find that the
m/b *must* be fully populated before adding riser boards... *and* the
riser boards are mirrored. So I had to pull two riser boards, the one
I'd taken two DIMMs off of, and it's mirror.
Brought it back up, no errors. Then, Monday, I tried replacing one of
the two, apparently good riser boards with one that I'd taken out, and
had put the two DIMMs that I was guessing included the bad one.
I *still* can't provoke the error. Maybe it only happens when I have
everything fully populated? (I've run stress to the point where all 2G
of swap is used....)
Meanwhile, I'd joined an HP forum, and someone suggested that I really,
really needed a BIOS update, and that would fix it. Sounds plausible.
However, when I found the d/l of that, I ran into three things: first,
the damn thing was an .exe, and they do *not* seem to have a .bin.
Second, the "description" (laughable, at best) didn't seem to say
anything about ECC errors, but whatever. Then there's the biggie: it
*seems* to say that I have to install a previous BIOS update first...
but I'm not sure. I would have thought it was a full package.
Now, as the system is long out of warranty, and there's no way the
other Institute will spring to pay HP, they won't even talk to me about
*anything*, so I'm on my own.
The upshot: does anyone here have a clue as to whether I can flash
update the BIOS with the latest update, or whether I actually have to
do the older one first?
Thanks in advance.
mark
On 4/30/2013 11:44 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> I've mentioned in > other posts, we have an HP dl580 g5 that started throwing ECC errors.quick show of hands here, how many other people have a fully populated, memory-mirrored DL580 G5 ? how many don't ? (wait, thats probably 1000s of you). -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
From: m.roth at 5-cent.us Sent: April 30, 2013 11:45> > The upshot: does anyone here have a clue as to whether I can flash > update the BIOS with the latest update, or whether I actually have to > do the older one first?I do not have experience with the DL580G5 however we do have several DL360G5 and DL380G5 units and the firmware upgrade should be a piece of cake: 1. Download the Firmware CD. 2. Burn it to disk. 3. Boot from the CD. 4. Answer a few questions and let it do its thing. 5. Bobs your uncle you are done. It should not matter what the current firmware is. HTH Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com
For the DL380 G4 series, the firmware update bootable ISO was Linux based and the SmartStart CD was Linux based. Boot using the Live ISO and there was a utility available that would create a LiveUSB version. No Windows was required whatsoever. i loved the way that most all firmware updates were accomplished from a LiveCD. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com>wrote:> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us Sent: April 30, 2013 12:34 > > > > The DVD: is that bootable? If so, can I simply put the .exe > > on the h/d, > > and boot from the DVD, then point it to the .exe and run it? > > It is supplied as a zipped ISO file. Burn the ISO and then boot from > the disk. > > I have just remembered that the Firmware DVDs have been replaced by > the new Service Pack for ProLiant (also bootable). > > HTH > > Regards, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >