[CentOS] ECC memory errors

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:46:08AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11:45AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us 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.

Hmm. this may be what I was thinking of, though I think the one I have
at home has a different menu. nevertheless, this may help...:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/


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