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electroland
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March 27th, 2004 17:00
Bad Base code image Error during boot
upon boot up i the system gets through post,perc,scsi cards , then when ready to start loading windows i receive a error that stops booting (Error: Bad Base code image) when you hit any key booting resumes and everything works fine. any ideas what this is ? i am running A13 bios
Message Edited by electroland on 03-27-2004 01:52 PM
electroland
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Posted April 30th, 2004 01:00
i have not received any feed back on this at all. the problem still exists and i can find nothing about it on the net. we can not be the only two people in the world having this problem. what perc do you have in your system?
Mscrafford
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Posted May 3rd, 2004 17:00
I've got the Dell PERC2/DC (from original configuration on the server it notes it as:
44TXF Card (Circuit), Controller, PERC2-DC, PCI/S, Length, Long, REV1
In the array manager its noted as PERC 2/DC firmware 1.04, with 64MB of cache.
Is that the same one you're running? similar firmware?
This message sounds like from a software product that allows your networked computer to boot using a program code image supplied by a remote server. To verify my presumption you should remove any PCI NICs and disable any onboard NIC in the system BIOS.
Message Edited by Per_R. on 11-25-2005 01:14 PM
After googling, it seems the perc2 is a scsi-card, right? I don't have scsi at all.
I suspect the message is from the BIOS. Maybe it's trying to tell us that it can't boot from the device (It can't boot from your SCSI-Card and it can't boot from my network-card). Unfortunately, I'm kinda stuck now...
electroland
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Posted May 4th, 2004 00:00
i have a similar card. i noticed that i started receiveing this message when i rebuilt the server with the orig dell boot cdrom. i am running 2k server now. i am leaning to this being a perc issue because when i updated the firmware on everything is when i started getting this error.
what did dell tech support want you to try ?
maybe some one that works for dell with respond and give us some things we can try. does anyone know where i can get older firmware for a PE6300 ?i have the machine uptodate from the website.
Mscrafford
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Posted May 4th, 2004 14:00
They suggested taking the server apart one card at a time until the error dissapeared....which I'd happily do if it was just a workstation, but I'm not about to take down my main server to play with it when I figure that someone (?!) really ought to know the error codes in the firmware, be it the PERC, or the BIOS.
electroland
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Posted May 5th, 2004 02:00
wow that does not seem right. once again i can't believe we are the only two people to have experianced this. you know you might want to try and call back and see if maybe you just got a bad tech !
see if they can give you the next level of tech.
- You're not the only ones with that problem. I have the same problem with a ASUS P4B266 Board (no Dell system).
The Error message came with the installation of a 3COM Gigabit card (3C2000). I didn't ask 3COM about this until now.
My machine has 1GB RAM and a large HD (CAD workstation).
Maybe someone finds a solution :-)
Rainer
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Posted April 29th, 2004 15:00
I've also just started recieving this error on a PowerEdge 1400SC (PERC2 controller). I emailed support about it, but they didnt know where the error was coming from, and I am not too keen on taking the server apart (as was suggested by support) without knowing what the error is from/caused by. Have you resolved yours yet?