RP8420 Cell Board has 1 VRM Fault --- A Show Stopper?

[Alzhy]

We've a big deployment ona recently purchased RP8420 with PA-8900 Cores (1100Mhz). As final checks before deciding to go ahead or not, I notice the following when I do a PS.

Everything in SL and FPL however checks out fine... Even EMS and DIAGS do not complain... Should I cancel/abort? And I can just drop this CELL fromthe config... ? This is a 32-core system and initially we only need ~ 20 CPUs...




HW status for Cell 2 : FAILURE DETECTED

Power status : on, 1.2V Module 0, VRM #1 VOLTAGE FAULT
Boot is not blocked
PDH memory is shared
Processor Compatibility : OK
RIO cable status : not connected
RIO cable connection physical location : cannot be determined
Core cell is cell 0
Attention Led is off

PDHC status Leds : ***-

CPU Module Slot 0 1 2 3
Populated P P P P
Local 48V Good * * * *
Power Enabled * * * *
Power Good * * * *

(* - True, P - Processor, T - Terminator)



DIMMs populated:
0 . . . 4 . . . 8 . . .12 . . .
* * * * * * * * * * * *

1 1 1 1 1 1
VRM's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
Present : * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Enabled : * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Pwr Good : * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Front Side Bus Freq. : 200 MHz
CPU Core Freq. : 1100 MHz
CPU Part Number : PA8900

System Boot Rom (SFW) firmware rev 24.001
PDH controller (PDHC) firmware rev 3.030, built THU JUL 27 21:18:14 2006
MICE revision is 1.0

[tkc]

i know there are 3 x 1.2V VRM in the rp8420 cell board, i.e. VRM 1, 2 and 3, but not sure if they are redundant though.