Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-07 Thread Nathan Duehr
On May 6, 2013, at 1:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Interesting. I need to look at them further. > > HOWEVER: I saw something there about unpacking an .exe... and googled > that, and found someone talking about doing that... which led me to > cabextract, and, sure 'nough, I now have what was in

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-07 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > John Doe wrote: >> The ISOSs are downloadable... >> Google "firmware maintenance cd" and check the "version > history" to get >> the latest one. Then, try the "release notes" to see if you find > your >> server model (not always listed). If not, go back a few vers

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment. > >> Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP? > >> > >> And it bothers me that I'

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment. >> Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP? >> >> And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do* have to be >> aware

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment. > Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP? > > And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do* have to be > aware of security. I'm still thin

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/6/2013 8:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> But wait, it's worse than that, Jim I did, in fact, boot freedos >> from the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced >> that it*can't* be run in DOS mode. >> >> No, there's no way anyone's going to

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2013 8:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > But wait, it's worse than that, Jim I did, in fact, boot freedos from > the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced that > it*can't* be run in DOS mode. > > No, there's no way anyone's going to spring for a Windows license

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >>> You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD. >>> It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if >>> needed... >>> You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your >>> model (see in the release notes), since

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" >> You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD. >> It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if >> needed... >> You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your model >> (see in the release notes), since they gradually remove o

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >> 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 happe

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-06 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > 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

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Peltonen
Replying to myself: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > The EDAC error msg reports problems with bank0. Can I trust this? I tried > installing edac-utils to get more information, but after installation it > only generates segmentation fault: > > # edac-util --report=simple >

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, wrote: > > 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 kno

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread 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.r...@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 b

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11:45AM -0400, m.r...@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 faul

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread m . roth
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

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread Vipul Agarwal
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM, mark wrote: > > > > > DIMM went bad. No big thing. Your only problem may be to identify which > > one, he says, about to go into work to do just that. > > > > Thanks for your response and suggestions

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM, mark wrote: > > DIMM went bad. No big thing. Your only problem may be to identify which > one, he says, about to go into work to do just that. > Thanks for your response and suggestions. About identifying the faulty DIMM: Is the memtest provided on the Cent

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Schumacher
Monday, April 29, 2013, 1:59:44 PM, you wrote: >> Message from syslogd@ at Mon Apr 29 08:02:55 2013 ... >> server1 kernel: EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 1 labels "-": >> (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=0 RDWR=Read RAS=0 CAS=0, UE Err=0x2 (Aliased >> Uncorrectable Non-Mirrored Demand Data ECC))

Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread mark
On 04/29/13 04:17, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I started to receive this kind of messages a few days ago on one of my > servers: > > Message from syslogd@ at Mon Apr 29 08:02:55 2013 ... > server1 kernel: EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 1 labels "-": > (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=0 RDWR=Read RAS=0

[CentOS] ECC memory errors

2013-04-29 Thread Peter Peltonen
I started to receive this kind of messages a few days ago on one of my servers: Message from syslogd@ at Mon Apr 29 08:02:55 2013 ... server1 kernel: EDAC MC0: UE row 0, channel-a= 0 channel-b= 1 labels "-": (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=0 RDWR=Read RAS=0 CAS=0, UE Err=0x2 (Aliased Uncorrectable Non-Mirrore