Proliant 1600 problem

[nitin_12]

Proliant 1600 server is getting hanged frequently with "hardware malfuntioning contact vendor" error message is coming. When I diagnose server with compaq diagnose utility, it gets hung on serial.tm file check status. What is Serial.TM file?

[Terry Hutchings]

It's one of the files attempting to load from the system partition or floppy (if you've booted off these to run diagnostics). Is there any third party hardware in the server? A Digi board would be an example.

[nitin_12]

Previously it was working properly. Suddenly server is giving error message "hardware malfuncting, contact vendor" After booting & check for hardware check through Compaq diagnostic, server is getting hang while checking Serial.TM file... Previously this test was through. I dont know where the problem is. Server is giving blue screen after booting in windows NT 4.0 server after login to server.

[Arthur Chang]

According to my experience,It must be hardware fail,I suggest you should call HP.

thank you!!

[Terry Hutchings]

So there is no third party hardware installed?

This could be a hardware problem, but I would recommend all hardware NOT required to boot into the OS is removed first, then try to boot into diagnostics.