topic Re: DL380 G3 Processor Stepping in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

DL380 G3 Processor Stepping

imjustme — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:04:40 GMT

Hi I have a DL380 G3 which has a problem it has 4 Intel Xeon 3.06ghz processors but 2 are stepping 5 and the others stepping 9 ?

x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 5 GenuineIntel ~3052Mhz

x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~3052Mhz

Is there anyway to flash update these ? Its running smartstart 7.91 and also had firmware updated to 7.91 but they dont update the stepping revision ?

Thanks in advance

Re: DL380 G3 Processor Stepping

Mi6t0 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:18 GMT

The stepping doesn't depend on firmware, it's just hardware related. You can use them that way, it won't make any troubles.

Regards,

Re: DL380 G3 Processor Stepping

imjustme — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:09:06 GMT

hi thanks for the reply so I cant actually flash the CPU revision then ?

Re: DL380 G3 Processor Stepping

Mi6t0 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:47:01 GMT

Well, I don't know a way to do it... Never heard of such thing :)

Re: DL380 G3 Processor Stepping

KarloChacon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:03:11 GMT

hi

what you need to do is flash/update your System BIOS

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=316529&prodNameId=3288130&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I21952

and If I am not wrong put Proc with lowest stepping in slot 1 and the higher slot 2, if not swap processors

let us know any update
regards