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Flashing Amber LED, Power Edge 2500
I have a Dell Power Edge 2500, it has a flashing amber led. OS is Novell.
I ran the Scanreg command from diskette and the eventlog.txt shows the following
Log2Txt A2.7 Wed Sep 15 09:25:59 2004 Dell Computer Corporation
Dell PowerEdge 2500
Esm System Board 5.43 64 Device 0x00 [0] 56 Sensors
SCSI A Primary 1.29 3 Device 0x0d [13] 32 Sensors
Log Number 0
Log Type : 0x20 Informational Event
Severity : 0x02 Informational
Device Time : 0x414809C9 Wed Sep 15 09:22:17 2004
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
Event : 0x01 Error Log Cleared
Log Number 1
Log Type : 0x20 Informational Event
Severity : 0x02 Informational
Device Time : 0xFFFFFFFF Time Unavailable
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
Event : 0x00 Power Up
Log Number 2
Log Type : 0x14 SMB Event
Severity : 0x04 Ok
Device Time : 0xFFFFFFFF Time Unavailable
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
ESM 2 Sensor : 0x1C Power Supply 1 Status
Reading : 0xFF4F Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type
Log Number 3
Log Type : 0x14 SMB Event
Severity : 0x04 Ok
Device Time : 0xFFFFFFFF Time Unavailable
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
ESM 2 Sensor : 0x1D Power Supply 2 Status
Reading : 0xFF4F Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type
Log Number 4
Log Type : 0x14 SMB Event
Severity : 0x04 Ok
Device Time : 0xFFFFFFFF Time Unavailable
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
ESM 2 Sensor : 0x30 Power Supply 3 Status
Reading : 0xFF4F Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type
Log Number 5
Log Type : 0x14 SMB Event
Severity : 0x04 Ok
Device Time : 0x41480A23 Wed Sep 15 09:23:47 2004
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
ESM 2 Sensor : 0x35 AC Switch
Reading : 0x0212 AC Supply Source 1, AC Source 2 Failed
Log Number 6
Log Type : 0x14 SMB Event
Severity : 0x10 Critical
Device Time : 0x41480A23 Wed Sep 15 09:23:47 2004
Device Id : 0x00 Esm2 System Board
ESM 2 Sensor : 0x35 AC Switch
Reading : 0x0212 AC Supply Source 1, AC Source 2 Failed
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The three hot swappable PSU's all have green led's, there is only one AC input
in back of unit. Any suggestions?????
SVC tag B23SP01
Thanks
Don
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September 15th, 2004 14:00
Log Numbers 1-4 are normal power on messages. Log Numbers 5 and 6 are just alerting you that the second AC input is not connected. It is not required to use this second AC input, but if you do, it should be connected to a different power circuit from the first AC input.
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dbeam
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September 15th, 2004 14:00
There is no second AC input on the back of the unit. Only one, could this be
a configuration problem?
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September 15th, 2004 17:00
Early PowerEdge 2500 systems only had the one AC input. This should not be causing the ESM indicator to blink. Were there are more items in the eventlog.txt?
I would recommend the latest System BIOS and ESM Firmware.
Dell Server System BIOS, PowerEdge 2500 / 2500SC, A07
FileName: 2500-A07.exe [520 KB]
Dell ESM Firmware, PowerEdge 2500 / 2500SC, A54
Filename: a54cust.exe (405 KB)
Note: Extract the files to a DOS bootable floppy disk. Boot the server to this floppy disk, and run smflsh.exe.
Thanks
Mark
dbeam
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September 15th, 2004 18:00
ESM bios was current. System Bios A05, we have apx 96 of this particular
model server deployed all running same OS,with ESM,and Sys Bios the same
no problems. Went ahead and reloaded ESM bios when I did Amber led
went out hasn't come back on yet. I ran the diags and all tests passed.
Guess we'll just watch and see....maybe bios got corrupted somehow?
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September 15th, 2004 19:00
A corrupt BIOS is what I suspected, as this was obviously a false error message. If the BIOS did not resolve the issue, the next would be to clear the NVRAM, before any hardware replacement.
Thanks for the feedback !
dbeam
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September 16th, 2004 11:00
I came in this morning and amber led is flashing again, ran the Log utility
and getting same error as before. Upgrading system bios to A07, and also
going to re-flash the ESM Bios.