Adding processors anomaly

[Mark Coleman_1]

I just came across this issue and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced it. I currently have a 4 processor N class server (processors 1,3,5,7 installed). My company recently purchased 4 more processors to go in the server. They were installed and the server was turned on. Rather than booting and seeing console messages, the server just sat there with the run light blinking. No console activity whatsoever. No amount of resets and power off/on would make the server have any activity.
I finally got disgusted and just left it sitting there for an hour or so. I came back to it, did another power off/on and it booted with no problems, seeing all of the new processors.
Has anyone else had a similiar scenario?? I'm just wondering. Our HP installer had never seen anything like it. The server is a N class B model (A3639B) with 12G of RAM and is attached to a Clariion CX400. It has 2 root drives.
The scariest thing was when I flipped the switch and nothing happened console wise. It just sat like a hunk of metal.

Mark

[Devesh Pant_1]

Mark,
We just added a few processors on different types of servers including the N class but things have been okay so far. I would think it was a proper seating of the processor modules into the slots that could have caused it or may be some other kind of loose contact or may be some kind of bus reset that could have caused it.

thanks
DP

[Alex Lavrov.]

Probably some hardware problem.

Anyway, if I were you, I would demand to replace all four CPU's with a new ones and install them. Don't leave it like this. If it works now, you can't be sure that on next boot it will not hang again. CPU's cost lotsa money, so don't give up and stuck with a bad ones.

Alex.