Proliant 6500 CPU Issues

[audiophil]

I picked up an old 6500 with quad ppro/1Mb cpus to play with and would like to try a little linux on her but it says that 3 cpu's aren't functioning. I get a 212 error on slot 9 cpu 1 & 2 and slot 10 cpu 1. Then it ok's slot 10 cpu 2 and boots. If I swap the cpu cards in 9 and 10 I get the same error with only cpu 2 in slot 10 working. On 2 occasions I did get all 4 cpu's but that's out of about 40 boots. The power modules are all in place and have no red led's lit up either. Any ideas? I read one post about doing a fulll disassembly anddust out so I'll probably try that next. Oh, one of the fans for the pci slots is bad too, gives me a 1611, but both cpu fans look fine

Phil

 

[audiophil]

O.K. figured it out. I used a linux boot disk to try some scsi drivers and did not go into system configuration and reset the cpu's. I guess that the boot disk only used 1 cpu and that flagged it as only having 1. When I entered the config utility it asked "Did you exchange the faulty cpu?" I replyed yes and their all showing as good again. I am definately a 'nix noob, but that's what this box is for - learning on