[SunHELP] Sunfire v20z BIOS update

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Sorry, I was not advocating it, just commenting....

Peter


On 12/11/2010 10:40, hike wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Peter Stokes<peter at ashlyn.co.uk>  wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> Yes I would suspect a BIOS/SP update is required and yes you will need
>> either a contract with Oracle or a helpful friend.
>>
>> Peter
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> Wouldn't that be a friendly thief.    (The contracts preclude "sharing".)
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>> On 12/11/2010 05:55, Aaron C Johnson wrote:
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>>> I recently purchased a Sunfire v20z 1u server off ebay and I also
>>> purchased 2 amd opteron 275 2.2ghz dual core procs. The server came with
>>> 2 1.6ghz single core opterons.
>>>
>>> The server works fine with the cpus that it came with but when I install
>>> the opteron 275's the server starts to post, and then it hangs at the
>>> initial boot screen. What's even weirder is that it only counts half the
>>> memory that is in the system when using the 275's. It counts memory
>>> correctly when using the cpus that it came with.
>>>
>>> So I'm thinkin it's either a memory compatibility issue or it needs a
>>> bios update. Problem is I can't get access to the bios update because it
>>> is secured on Sun's website (if only I was mr. mitnik I could get it!)
>>>
>>> I think the latest version is located here:
>>> http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=45b0166d
>>>
>>> The memory I am using is 2 512mb ddr ecc registered pulled from a dell
>>> poweredge 2600sc.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
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