ML 530 no video output

[Janis Adijans]

I have SCU 2.58, but it still says that its PCI card.

[chongkan]

Hi, Janis and Stephen

Your server has a BIOS, because there is a BIOS ROM PACK available for your server at:

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/69_1117.html

Your server has RBSU just because every computer, PC or server must have a BIOS setup utillity, in this case called ROM based setup utillity.

And here is the RBSU user guide. Go to page 91 and read. How to configure an array starting with a powered down server...

http://docs.hp.com/en/306105-005/306105-005.pdf

And, if you want to visit my previous links and read a little, you'll find instructions on how to use the products and also to what server models the product applies to or support.

If when you click the links you get into a "cannot display window page", erase the "
" on the address bar, I don't know why is that string doing there.

:)

PD.. Use SS 7.40 and PSP 7.50A as I-ve told you, read the instructions and supported servers...

[Stephen Kebbell]

Hi Chongkan,

yes, all servers have a BIOS, but not all ProLiants have a BIOS setup utility via an F9 prompt. Older Proliants had NO RBSU! This was the case up until the first G2 servers came out. To configure BIOS settings for these older machines you needed System Configuration Utilty, which you either ran from SmartStart, from floppies, or installed it to the hard disk so you could access it via F10 on boot-up (installed using SmartStart). But installing to the Hard Disk is currently not an option, as there are no arrays or logical drives configured. And we are stuck there at the moment.

Now I'm not 100% sure whether Janis' server has an RBSU. If there is no F9 prompt, and pressing F9 after POST does not do anything then it does not have one. And if this is the case, then using SmartStart 7.40 is also a waste of time, as it will say that the server is unsupported!

However, I think the Smart Array 5300 has it's own Online ROM Configuration Application (ORCA), which could be accessed by pressing F8 after the array controller prompt during POST. Here you could also set the controller as the boot controller. But I can't be sure, as I don't have one in front of me.

Janis, if you boot from SS 5.50, is there an option to launch Array Configuration Utility? I can't say if a firmware upgrade on the SA5300 would help, but if you want to try, download the Firmware Maintenance CD and boot from it.
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23331.html


If all else fails, get the system erase floppy
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/17918.html

and erase the machine completely (clears CMOS, wipes Array config). Then start again from scratch. (I'm running out of ideas!)

Regards,
Stephen

[Janis Adijans]

I've done all the steps you said. At startup I can't see that Smart Array. Also in ROM maintenance utility I can't see it so i can't upgrade firmware to it.
Server is ML530. Bios version number shows P19. Also in configuration utility at appears only as a PCI card.
Probably controller has a damage and I've just sent it back to retailer. I hope, he will be able to tell what's wrong with it.