IBM Netfinity 5100 8658 21Y, Manual

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Notes:
1. If you have a power-on password or administrator
password set, you must type the password and press
Enter, when prompted, before POST will continue.
2. A single problem might cause several error messages.
When this occurs, work to correct the cause of the first
error message. After you correct the cause of the first
error message, the other error messages usually will
not occur the next time you run the test.
Event/error logs
The POST error log contains the three most recent error
codes and messages that the system generated during
POST. The System Event/Error Log contains all error
messages issued during POST and all system status
messages from the Netfinity Advanced System
Management Processor.
To view the contents of the error logs, start the
Configuration/Setup Utility program; then, select
Event/Error Logs from the main menu.
Small computer system interface
messages
The table in “SCSI error codes” on page 178 lists actions
to take if you receive a SCSI error message.
Note: If your server does not have a hard disk drive,
ignore any message that indicates that the BIOS is
not installed.
You will get these messages only when running the
SCSISelect Utility.
Identifying problems using status LEDs
If the System Error light in the operator information panel
on the front of the server is on, one or more LEDs inside
the server or on the power supplies will be on. Use the
light path diagnostics to identify the type of error that
occurred.
Light path diagnostics
You can use the light path diagnostics built into your server
to quickly identify the type of system error that occurred.
Your server is designed so that any LEDs that are
illuminated remain illuminated when the server shuts down
as long as the AC power source is good and the power
supplies can 5V dc current to the server. This
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: Netfinity 5100 Type 8658 Models 11Y, 21Y, 31Y,
41Y, 51Y, 1RY, 2RY, 3RY, 4RY, 5RY