DL380G6: WHEA-Logger Serious Hardware Defect

[TPUmlandt]

Have here a Proliant DL380 G6 Server and every time, the server is rebooted, I find this in the windows event log:

(twice per each reboot. And only after rebooting the system. )

Schwerwiegender Hardwarefehler. Ein Fehlereintrag mit einer Beschreibung des Zustands befindet sich im Datenbereich dieses Ereignisses.

(Serious Hardware fault. An Error entry with a description of the status is in the data area of this event)

- System

  - Provider

   [ Name]  Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger
   [ Guid]  {C26C4F3C-3F66-4E99-8F8A-39405CFED220}
 
   EventID 1
 
   Version 0
 
   Level 2
 
   Task 0
 
   Opcode 0
 
   Keywords 0x8000000000000002
 
  - TimeCreated

   [ SystemTime]  2011-11-12T09:45:58.434734900Z
 
   EventRecordID 18282
 
  - Correlation

   [ ActivityID]  {BF6B2CD9-B9C4-4AD4-89F5-726B68E700F3}
 
  - Execution

   [ ProcessID]  548
   [ ThreadID]  752
 
   Channel System
 
   Computer S-DDF-NAS2
 
  - Security

   [ UserID]  S-1-5-19
 

- EventData

  Length 476
  RawData 435045521002FFFFFFFF02000100000002000000DC0100002C3A0E0011060B140

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000BDC407CF89

B7184EB3C41F732CB57131FF89AD5BE6B7C942814ACF2485D6E98AE3D72F0AFF2CCC01

00000000455200000000000100000000000000000000000010010000C00000000102000000

000000ADCC7698B447DB4BB65E16F193C4F3DB0000000000000000000000000000000003

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000D00100000C000000010200000100

0000E75412E7B9C14049AB76909703A4320F00000000000000000000000000000000010000

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000043010000000000000002000000000000A

506010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000A00000000000000000000000

Question: Is this a real hardware defect, since the machine runs reliably, or is it a Driver / Bios-Problem?

The server is from June 2009, the system health display on the front panel does not show any faults.

CPU: Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz.
Memory: 6GB RAM
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Fully patched, including last Tuesday.

With best regards

Toni Umlandt.

[Johan Guldmyr]

Hi, if you want to check for hw defects I would recommend the HP diagnostics (you can run them online from system management homepage) or from the smartstart CD (so booting and it's offline).
Another good test is the memtest86 (comes on several linux distros now).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff560537(v=vs.85).aspx

Has some details as for the WHEA error.

For drivers/firmware go here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3884083&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884082&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4064

[AlexeyS]

Hi! I have the same problem with DL380 G6. HP diagnostics not found anything, Everything is OK.
Did u find solution to this problem?
Server is shutting down for no reason.