B150F22A

Hi Everyone

Another day another new issue. I have an i520 with no OS that stops on D IPL boot up with the following SRC B150F22A 'CEC Hardware Su' 'Unrecoverable Error' which is a firmware update policy warning on the Service Procesor, essentially saying that the firmware on the system needs to be updated before the system can boot.

After doing some investigation though I have found that the system firmware on this machine is at the latest level (SF230_284) and there is another SRC in the log which is B170F244 which I can find no information on.

I have done some asking around and someone said they had had the same error, and it was caused by a mixture of the latest firmware updates and then any major system configuration change occuring on the machine knocking out a CUOD key. Now, this is an entry level i520, so no CUOD, but, apparantly, even though this is not a CUOD box there is still a CUOD key on the system that if it changes, renders the box useless with the SRC B150F22A until you go to the IBM CUOD key genertor on the IBM website http://www-912.ibm.com/pod/pod (enter in details and then enter the key into the ASMI and it should fix the problem).

But as I suspected, as this is a value edition box there is no key available for it. So my question is, has anyone else had this problem, and did they fix it?

More Details:

OS V5R3M5, have tried D IPL and also IPL from a Load Source with the OS and Latest CUM instaled.
Have Reset the Service Proc manually and via ASMI (including reset to factory settings)


What I was thinking of trying is taking the Service Proc out of this machine and trying it in a different value 520 that I also have to see if I get the same error?

Any help as always greatly appreciated.