Re: Strange occurrence on our E4A (V6)

Sounds like glitchy hardware.

1.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8/0000-REF?topic=POWER8_REF/p8eai/B1817200.html
2. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8?topic=procedures-fspsp02


On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This afternoon, our E4A didn't power up for its normal weekly exercise
cycle. And it was showing a yellow light.

I pulled out the control panel, and for a while, it was showing nonsense.

I pushed the start button. It didn't immediately react. Then, a minute
or so later, it finally began to power up.

Once I was able to get a terminal sesson on it, I looked around.

I found a CPPEA58 in the system operator message queue. Opening that
message gave me:

Cause . . . . . : A platform Licensed Internal Code error occurred.
Recovery . . . : Contact your hardware service provider and provide the
following list of possible failing items:
FSPSP28
FSP0200
FSPSP02


Looking at the Service Action Log in SST, I got two SRCs: B6004422
(count of 5) and B1817200 (count of 1). Looking at the B1817200, I got
the same three items that I got from the QSYSOPR message.

But the only thing I found under "failed and non-reporting logical
hardware resources" was DSP001, which is to be expected. And F10 from
Hardware Service Manager gave me "No hardware resources currently
require attention."

And a WRKACTJOB shows the correct time and date for the system TOD clock.

Any insights?

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JHHL
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