Bl20p issue

[Rich Hickson]

i have 3 blades, in a enclousre, two of them are fine, one of them on boot says unrecognised cpu, and asks me to run a rompaq, i have contacted hp, they gave me the link to the right rompaq, which i have extracted to a floopy, it doesnt recognis it, so i tryed via ilo, and it stil doesnt pick it up, i have tryed via floppy and creating an image, and neither of them work. just keeps asking for a disk. any ideas?

[Oleg Koroz]

extracted to a floppy ???

you should Create Floppy

http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/romtabl.html


Model of server ?
What file you been given ?

[Oleg Koroz]

iLO firmware ?

[Rich Hickson]

wel i didnt extract to floppy i did everything that the dos prompt told me to

the link to what i was given by hp support is http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/24818.html

and the server is a hp bl20p g3

the ilo version is: 1.70, i tryed updating this as well, and it would not do that either.

[Oleg Koroz]

Extract online Update and take ilo184.bin file
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/24584.html
From administration Select - Firmware Update, Browse for file and click Send firmware Image


after try once again Virtual media

Diskette that you create should be bootable, verify from other system

[Rich Hickson]

ok, the Ilo firmare updated fine, but it still wont let me update the servers firmware. the screen shot attached is the message i get, i press a key it flashes off then comes back on.

[Oleg Koroz]

can we swap CPU ?
how many you have 1 or 2 installed ?
if dual can you pull 2nd out

[Rich Hickson]

i removed one of the cpus booted up an it came up with the same screen as above. so i replaced the cpu, an took out the other an this time it wouldnt even boot up.

any ideas?

[Oleg Koroz]

Assuming you have two Identical CPU single Core and Your System Board for Single Core CPU. You got your System from Reseller with two Identical CPU) - for some Reason you have Problem with Unsupported CPU now. If you don't have any other Server to Test if it's CPU problem, try switching to Redundant ROM with CPU that won't power UP or Second one, Use switches 1,5 and 6 from box of 8. Once it done and nothing Helps replace System Board or CPU depend on the Results.


BL20p G3 Dual Core available with 2.8GHz only and system board starts with 4xxxxx-001 for single 3xxxxx-001

[Rich Hickson]

I updated the ilo firmware using ilo, then updated the firmware on the server, and now it works!

thanks for all your help

[Andrea_B]

Hi Rich,
I have the same problem on a system (bl20p g3) at a Italy customer.
I receave the messages "805 Unsupported processor" and im not able to flash bios in any manner.

Did you have solve the problem??

Gest Regards
Andrea Brasina
andrea.brasina@hp.com

[Rich Hickson]

i did, i updated the ILo firmware before i could update the firmware on the blade i belive, it took me a while to solve it, and i cant remember exactly how i did it, but if you have any problems drop me an email to rich@hextable.kent.sch.uk as i tend not to check this forum!