Hi all,
I bought an HP Proliant DL180 G6 2nd-hand from Ebay in November 2017, and it's been running fine for the last 2 years at my home, it's running Ubuntu and used as a home media & CCTV server. However, now it won't start up and is stuck in standby mode. Nothing has changed, it just wouldn't start up again after a shut down.
When I connect the mains the following occurs:
- The power button glows solid amber indicating standby mode.
- The system health LED lights amber (non-critical error) for a couple of seconds, followed by solid green (healthy) for a few seconds,then goes out.
- The green BMC LED on the main board also flashes (indicating BMC activity). - Dual PSU green LEDs don't illuminate (but these only light when running, so no surprise).
However, after this point, then pressing the power button does not result in anything happening, basically it's stuck in standby mode and won't start up. Tried short and long button presses, and no joy.
I have tried power-cycling it (mains on / off) with the J27 maintenance jumper in all positions;
- A (clear CMOS),
- B (clear password),
- C (recovery BIOS),
- D (recovery BMC),
- E (RTC reset).
Nothing improved.
The CMOS battery is healthy at 3V.
I cleaned out the small amount of dust accumulated, but it wasn't bad.
Can you suggest any other way to get this machine out of standby mode and booted again? I've not tried pulling the CMOS battery, as I didn't want to risk having to re-load the BIOS and the extra world of pain that would entail.
Many thanks, Scott.