Welcome to the Club..... exact the same behavior on my Server using Freeipmi 0.4.3 Intel SE7320SP2
please see my posting from 4.9.2007 containing some Test-Output this must be related to the mBMC PC87431 from WINBOND (formerly National Semiconductor) which is used on both Boards (SE7320SP2 and SE72221BK1-E) and several other Intel Server-Boards. You' would really help me (and others) spending some time on this problem any hints for debugging are welcome btw. Please read this PDF-Document containig a warning from INTEL regarding possible Memory-Module damage.... exactly this did happen to me in November (2 DIMMS 1GB were killed) http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/aa_80302.pdf ----snip---- Root Cause Investigation has determined that the inoperable condition is caused by the DIMM Serial Presence Detect (SPD) information being corrupted. The SPD contains vital information about the DIMM such as size, data width and speed. The BIOS needs this information to correctly configure the server during Power On Self Test (POST). When the SPD information is no longer readable, the BIOS will stop the boot process and indicate a fatal system memory error. Investigation has shown that, under some circumstances, the mBMC may incorrectly respond when another device such as a DIMM SPD is being addressed. In the case of the computer interrogation software initiating memory discovery, the mBMC incorrectly responds to that software and writes unintelligible information to the SPD. The condition is not limited to an interaction with other software such as Intel’s management software but is exacerbated when other software is running. ----snip ---- _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
