BCM450 stuck at two solid red lights

[anon0101]

We came in this morning to a powered off BCM 450 with two solid red lights on it. We had storms last night that took some power out, would this indicate the Power spike or rail power fluctuation detected issue? If so, how do you get passed it?

We've powered off the system with the button on the back as well as held the reset button in for 5 seconds. I assume the reset button is right next to the USB port on the right hand side. Has anyone ever ran into this or does anyone have any other troubleshooting steps I could try?

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

As you have a BCM 450, then connect up a serial port at 115200 baud. Power up the BCM to see what is happening. I did a guide a while ago on using the Serial port on a BCM 50 system and some of it will apply to the BCM 450 system.

In my guide, I found this tip below.

Problem 2

BCM 50 system that has both flashing Red LED’s after powering it up and they stay constant.

Solution

This was due to an upgrade failure. By having a serial lead connected, you can watch the BCM boot up and see where the last command line was.

Opening the console
INIT: version 2.84 booting
Welcome to NCGL NCGL 2005 (cjdavola)
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Mounting proc filesystem: [ OK ]
Setting hostname bcm_m50r1: [ OK ]
Activating swap partitions: [ OK ]
Finding module dependencies: [ OK ]
Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]
Enabling swap space: [ OK ]
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Entering non-interactive startup
Starting nn_modules: [ OK ]
Starting fesConfig: [ OK ]
Starting Fans_control: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth2: [ OK ]
Starting portmapper: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]
Initializing random number generator: [ OK ]
Starting xinetd: [ OK ]
Starting ResetButton: ###### (Press the Reset Button on the front panel 2 times) ######

CSC U-Boot 2.04.01 (Jul 12 2005 - 18:25:35)

MPC8260 Reset Status: External Hard, External Soft

MPC8260 Clock Configuration
- Bus-to-Core Mult 4x, VCO Div 2, 60x Bus Freq 25-75 , Core Freq 100-300
- dfbrg 0, corecnf 0x1a, busdf 5, cpmdf 1, plldf 0, pllmf 5
- vco_out 399960000, scc_clk 99990000, brg_clk 99990000
- cpu_clk 266640000, cpm_clk 199980000, bus_clk 66660000

In my case, the BCM 50 just stopped at this point. All I did was to press the small reset button on the front of the BCM a couple of times at “Starting ResetButton:” and allowed it to reboot again. This time the prompt didn’t appear and the BCM 50 powered up OK.
If you don’t have a serial cable attached to the BCM 50 but you had both flashing Red LED’s after powering it up and they stay constant, then you could just wait 5 minutes and then press the small reset button on the front of the BCM a couple of times and see if it reboots OK.



Firebird Scrambler
Nortel Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK
Advance knowledge on BCM support

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbromley

 

[telcodog]

If you had storms last night and the system is not connected to a UPS, save yourself some time and just change the power supply. These systems are known to have weak power units.