Re: B150F22A -- MIDRANGE-L

B150F22A: "There was not enough functional nodes found in the system to continue IPLing."

Smacks of a VET code issue. Without the correct codes the system is confused about it's capability and identity. This is esentially the piece IBM uses to distinguish between 'i' and 'p' hardware since they are otherwise identical. If that code was incorrectly entered, not entered, got somehow messed up, then you have a vegetable until you get a new code from IBM Rochester.

- Larry

Lukas Beeler wrote:

Hi Martin,

I've had the B150F22A error before, on a new 520 Express, after
installing new Memory.
I searched the web high and low, but didn't find much about it. In the
end, I called IBM Support, which sent a CE On Site.

The CE tried lot's of stuff, but wasn't able to get the machine to boot.
In the end, we agreed that he takes the machine back to their lab (not a
problem, because I just unpacked it, and there were no deadlines to
meet).

After a week, we got a new box shipped, with the same Serial, but new
Mainboard/Backplane/Serviceprocessor, etc.

So, it obviously was a hardware issue, and not a configuration problem.

Maybe it would be best if you called up IBM service, because this seems
to be rather out of reach for "normal" people without access to IBM
internal resources and replacement parts.

Hope this helps,

Lukas

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Spencer
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 12:59 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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.

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