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August 4th, 2004 12:00
system status indicator blinking amber, Voltage sensor detected a failure value
Hi all,
I have a system status indicator blinking amber on my PowerEdge 2450 with W2k Server installed. I found out that "The green system status indicator blinks amber when a system failure is detected".
I also noticed an error event in my event viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Dell OpenManage Server Agent
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1154
Date: 2-8-2004
Time: 15:56:26
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
Voltage sensor detected a failure value
Sensor location: SCSI A external termination
Chassis location: Main System Chassis
Previous state was: Unknown
Voltage sensor value (in Volts): +1.264
I am not sure whether this error is related to the blinking amber light...
0 events found
AlfredJ
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August 5th, 2004 08:00
..some progress..
I just executed SMFLSHNT.EXE (part of the ESM version A42 software) and this stopped the blinking amber led. After updating the bios to version A09 en and installing OpenManage version 3.8 I was able to get more detail on this issue.
However, the problem still exists:
OpenManage - Main system chassis - Voltages -SCSI A external termination displays:
status: critical
reading 1.236 V
Minimum Failure Treshold 3.750 V
Maximum failure Treshold 5.500 V
..
The machine has an internal scsi card to which a tapestreamer is connected and it looks like this is the one causing this error. But what does this mean, a faulty scsi card (Adaptec 3960D Ultra 160/m pci scsi card)?
Thanks,
Alfred.
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August 6th, 2004 14:00
Hi Alfred,
This problem is within the SCSI Backplane. Usually a cable is either loose, defective or cabled improperly.
I would recommend removing, inspecting and reseating all connections on the SCSI Backplane, including the hard drives and backplane daughtercard (assuming this is a PowerEdge 2450 / 2550)
Backplane Documentation <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
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AlfredJ
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August 17th, 2004 18:00
yep, the backplane has been replaced and this solved the problem...
Thanks!