V2250 error at boot-up

[Ken Penland_1]

We have an older V2250 that gets a strange warning message when it boots up. Everything appears to me to be ok when it finally does come up, but the WARNING is kind of disconcerting...any thoughts?

sync'ing disks (0 buffers to flush):
0 buffers not flushed
0 buffers still dirty
OBP reboot

SPP2000, POST version 4.3, compiled 1998/08/04 07:57:51
Node Id: 00000000
Monarch: PB1L
Probing CPUs.
***** INFO ****** READ HINT LOGIC ENABLED!
Completing core SRAM initialization.
Initializing main memory.
Probing memory: MB0L, MB1L
**** WARNING **** Some or all of main memory was hardware deconfigured!
**** WARNING **** Some or all of main memory was software deconfigured!
Parallel memory initialization in progress
PB1L MB0L .......#
PB0R MB1L .......#
Nodemask=00000001
Booting OBP.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Ken

Call your HP responce centre and log a hardware call.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Ken Penland_1]

that bad, eh? Ok, will do.

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

It means that the connections to the DIMMs are loose or that memory needs to be replaced.

[Tim Sanko]

If you are familiar with stm and it's variants (cstm,mstm,xstm) you could have found out more of the problems by analysing the memory(before you rebooted). I run memory/CPU checks weekly on my production box.

I run them monthly on the test servers...

Tim

[Ken Penland_1]

doing a "dcm 0" on the sppuser console, it was determined which one was bad and HP is coming out tomorrow to replace, thanks for your assistance all :)