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Troubleshooting Information

HP ProLiant DL740 Server User Guide

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Refer to the HP Servers Troubleshooting Guide for the following:

• Information that you will need to collect when diagnosing software problems and

to provide when contacting technical support.

• Instructions about how to upgrade your operating system and its drivers. The

recovery options that are available and advice about minimizing downtime are
also provided.

Redundant ROM Images

Through subsequent boots of the server, if any integrity errors are detected by the
Bootblock, the system automatically launches the redundant image and continues the
POST process.

If this situation occurs, you will see a

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error message indicating which system

ROM is faulty. The ROMPaq utility flashes the failed system ROM to the latest
released version.

During the flash process, the ROMPaq driver automatically detects which system
ROM is inactive and flashes that system ROM with the image obtained from the
ROMPaq diskette. When the flash process is complete, the server contains a fully
redundant system ROM.

The system ROM can also be flashed remotely with the redundant ROM as a backup.

NOTE: If you are familiar with the process of flashing an HP server using the ROMPaq utility,
there are no noticeable changes to the ROMPaq user interface. This feature is implemented in
the ROMPaq driver and the system boot block only. User configuration of this feature is not
required.