Reviving a ML350 Gen9 Server (Memory error indication with fresh memory)

[linuxstony]

Hello Community, I hope you can help me.

the company of my wife retired a ML350 Gen9 server that I now use at home because I hate scraping working hardware - the server is just too good.

I updated the firmwares that i would find online (surely not all are up to date because I wasnt able to download the latest SPP because of the change of permission to with paid subscription) and it was working for months without problems (and years before that in the company my wife works in)

It now started to show that the RAM was giving up - so I replaced all RAM with recently purchased 128 GB.  (8x16 (partly NON-HPE-compliant ones)
But the boot works as normal - no booting errors. Also the RAM checks finish without problems as it did before. (health LED is amber due to bad Raid-Battery but I dont mind). I thought this would be no big deal - replacing the RAM and we are good to go again...

So it boots into the system - works as before and then simply crashes.

The Power-Fault LEDS blink three times - which I learned points to memory problems according to the manual.

But the system checks the RAM on boot - doesnt it?
The RAM itself I just bought is used RAM sold from a complany - not from private.

Would you be willing to help a non professional (non systemadmin) fan of his HP Proliant server?
Any advice what I could do on my part to prevent the system from crashing would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Stefan

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1. HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Server - LED Indicators

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[Suman_1978]

Hi,

Have you tried the following:
Insight Diagnostics from Intelligent Provisioning.
Try with HPE DIMM modules by removing non-HPE ones.
HPE ProLiant Gen9 Troubleshooting Guide.
Here is the ML350 Gen9 home page.

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