On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11:45AM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Vipul Agarwal wrote:
> >
> > One of my old HP DL585 had a similar issue but it turned out that the DIMM
> > slots were at fault. The server chassis had few led blinking red for those
> > DIMM slots and indicating that they are faulty. I removed the memory from
> > those slot and re-inserted them to the spare DIMM slots and everything is
> > working fine since then.
> >
> Hi, there Vipul, old buddy, old pal.... I've *got* an HP DL580 G5 that was
> spitting ECC errors, too. It was fully populated, both the m/b and the
> four risers. I took my best guess last week and pulled one mirrored pair
> of memory (OP: make sure that memory isn't mirrored - then you have to
> pull at *least* two), replaced them with two from a riser... and then had
> to take out *two* of the four risers.
>
> Now, on an HP support list, someone left a message over the weekend that I
> should do a BIOS update... except all I can find is a DOS .exe to do it,
> *and* there's a comment about needing to install previous BIOS updates....
> You don't happen to know if I do need to install the previous update?
>
> mark, looking into a freedos USB key solution....
I think the "emergency boot cd" contains bootable freedos images...
was looking for a URL for it, and I find many things under that name,
but I'm not sure that any of them is the one I'm thinking of. I'll post
again if I find it.
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