Hey Ulrich, Has any IPMI sensor software eventually worked on those motherboards for you? Vendor or open-source?
Al On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
