Hi, I have a hp dl360 g5 server with dual "QUAD XEON E5440 2.83GHz 12MB", 32gb of ecc ddr2 ram.
Recently it has started to not power up directly, sometimes when you press the 'on' button, both cpu amber lights on the insight display come on, the server doesn't start, and then after 1-5 min out of nowhere, the insight lights go off and server starts to boot. From what I know, if the cpu's were bad, the system would never start.
Why would it do that?
One day I had to reboot the system quickly few times in a row, could anything happen while rebooting? One thing i noticed is that when the system was running, the heatsing right behind the two cpus, under a metal bracket for the pci card, was getting pretty hot, can it be the cause?
I need the server to be up and running reliably as quickly as possible, because of the raid I had on it with pretty valuable data.
P.S. The server does it on every single powerup, both cpu lights are on, and after few minutes they go off and server starts up, in ILO2 there is no data about cpu errors it in the error messages.