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IPMIDRV 1004 errors on Windows 2008 R2 - M600 blades
Since updating firmware on all our M600 blades in order to attempt to resolve another issue (
http://www.delltechcenter.com/thread/4353610/M1000e+fans+and+the+M610x...what%27s+happening%3F), we have started to have problems with various network connections randomly dropping out - usually for about 10 minutes - before returning with no intervention. The whole time, the following error is logged in the Windows System event log:
Log Name: System
Source: IPMIDRV
Date: 09/12/2010 09:53:46
Event ID: 1004
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: hostname.domain.com
Description:
The IPMI device driver attempted to communicate with the IPMI BMC device during normal operation. However the communication failed due to a timeout. You can increase the timeouts associated with the IPMI device driver.
Event Xml:
1004
3
0
0x80000000000000
3638
System
hostname.domain.com
\Device\00000066
000004000100000000000000EC030580000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000E50000C0
Can anyone enlighten me as to what the problem might be?
We've had these errors on at least 5 of our 8 M600s, all on Windows 2008 R2.
Log Name: System
Source: IPMIDRV
Date: 09/12/2010 09:53:46
Event ID: 1004
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: hostname.domain.com
Description:
The IPMI device driver attempted to communicate with the IPMI BMC device during normal operation. However the communication failed due to a timeout. You can increase the timeouts associated with the IPMI device driver.
Event Xml:
1004
3
0
0x80000000000000
3638
System
hostname.domain.com
\Device\00000066
000004000100000000000000EC030580000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000E50000C0
Can anyone enlighten me as to what the problem might be?
We've had these errors on at least 5 of our 8 M600s, all on Windows 2008 R2.
nrawlinson1000
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December 9th, 2010 07:00
Kong Yang
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December 9th, 2010 08:00
Pinging PG and IPS.
KongY@Dell
nrawlinson1000
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December 9th, 2010 09:00
Kong Yang
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December 9th, 2010 10:00
Thanks. And your updates are appreciated.
Kong
nrawlinson1000
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December 10th, 2010 08:00
nrawlinson1000
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December 13th, 2010 02:00
A new CMC firmware (3.10) came out just before we powered the lot down, so that was installed on Dell's advice.
nrawlinson1000
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December 14th, 2010 01:00
nrawlinson1000
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December 14th, 2010 08:00
Had a little point of interest...I downloaded and installed the latest BroadCom firmware the other day, dated 06/Dec/2010. It installed Family 4.6.8. The new motherboard was installed with version 5.x on it...so I went back to the M600 support site and it wouldn't return any updates. Then I went back about 30 minutes later and a completely different file was linked to the release on 6/Dec/2010...this installed Broadcom Family 6.0.1.
All very strange...nonetheless, even this latest firmware has not resolved our issues.
Kong Yang
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December 14th, 2010 10:00
My PG and IPS contacts were not aware of any issues similar to what you're observing. Still waiting for responses from a few extended team members.
Kong
nrawlinson1000
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December 15th, 2010 00:00
The next thing will be a "midplane" swap I guess...are there any other parts that can be swapped after that?
nrawlinson1000
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December 17th, 2010 01:00
We've swapped out the mainboard, so what could possibly be the cause? It's not software, because we've seen it happen in POST. I'm just trying to think of the parts of an M600 that aren't on the mainboard that might possibly cause the problem? TOE/ISCSI Key maybe?
nrawlinson1000
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December 22nd, 2010 13:00
I shall keep you updated on how the TOE key change gets on.
nrawlinson1000
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January 4th, 2011 05:00
Kong Yang
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January 13th, 2011 11:00
PG Engineering said that they have not observed what you've seen. They're still going through their queues for anything similar.
nrawlinson1000
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January 14th, 2011 01:00