Flashing Amber LED, Power Edge 2500

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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 SensorsSCSI A Primary             1.29       3      Device 0x0d [13]  32 Sensors Log Number 0Log Type        :       0x20  Informational EventSeverity        :       0x02  InformationalDevice Time     : 0x414809C9  Wed Sep 15 09:22:17 2004Device Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardEvent           :       0x01  Error Log Cleared Log Number 1Log Type        :       0x20  Informational EventSeverity        :       0x02  InformationalDevice Time     : 0xFFFFFFFF  Time UnavailableDevice Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardEvent           :       0x00  Power Up Log Number 2Log Type        :       0x14  SMB EventSeverity        :       0x04  OkDevice Time     : 0xFFFFFFFF  Time UnavailableDevice Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardESM 2 Sensor    :       0x1C  Power Supply 1 StatusReading         :     0xFF4F  Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type Log Number 3Log Type        :       0x14  SMB EventSeverity        :       0x04  OkDevice Time     : 0xFFFFFFFF  Time UnavailableDevice Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardESM 2 Sensor    :       0x1D  Power Supply 2 StatusReading         :     0xFF4F  Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type Log Number 4Log Type        :       0x14  SMB EventSeverity        :       0x04  OkDevice Time     : 0xFFFFFFFF  Time UnavailableDevice Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardESM 2 Sensor    :       0x30  Power Supply 3 StatusReading         :     0xFF4F  Fan Ok, Unknown Supply Type Log Number 5Log Type        :       0x14  SMB EventSeverity        :       0x04  OkDevice Time     : 0x41480A23  Wed Sep 15 09:23:47 2004Device Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardESM 2 Sensor    :       0x35  AC SwitchReading         :     0x0212  AC Supply Source 1, AC Source 2 Failed Log Number 6Log Type        :       0x14  SMB EventSeverity        :       0x10  CriticalDevice Time     : 0x41480A23  Wed Sep 15 09:23:47 2004Device Id       :       0x00  Esm2 System BoardESM 2 Sensor    :       0x35  AC SwitchReading         :     0x0212  AC Supply Source 1, AC Source 2 Failed .   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

DELL-Mark A · Answer

Hi,

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 · Answer

There is no second AC input on the back of the unit. Only one, could this be a configuration problem?

DELL-Mark A · Answer

Hi Don,

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 · Answer

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?

DELL-Mark A · Answer

Hi,

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 · Answer

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.

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