I am new to the forums so forgive me if I have misplaced this thread. I recently had a "FREE" DL380 fall into my hands that had been in some less than ideal operating conditions. I figured it couldn't be too difficult to repair and I was mostly correct. I was able to clean up the system board and get the PDU functional and the board gets power! The only issue now is that the iLO4 embedded memory has the dreaded "init_fail to media write-verify" bug and I am nowhere near satisfied with the solution from HP of trying to reset the NAND and failing that, just throw out the board. Since I am fairly adept with board repair, I figured I would try to venture into replacing the NAND chip itself and brute force the initial 0-wipe to get a good flash chip on the board but I cant find anything on this. No mention of anyone trying this prior to my excursion into this project of a server.
Before someone mentions it, yes. I know I can get a new board for like $300USD. I am not concerned with cost but rather the amount of good hardware going to waste for what I assume to be due to a qspi flash chip that probably costs pennies.
Has anyone seen any information involving chip data or someone identifying the offending IC on the system board or is this something that just gets overlooked due to the low board cost?
Any leads are appreciated. If I don't get anything, I will start probing this board manually and post my results if I find anything useful.
Before someone mentions it, yes. I know I can get a new board for like $300USD. I am not concerned with cost but rather the amount of good hardware going to waste for what I assume to be due to a qspi flash chip that probably costs pennies.
Has anyone seen any information involving chip data or someone identifying the offending IC on the system board or is this something that just gets overlooked due to the low board cost?
Any leads are appreciated. If I don't get anything, I will start probing this board manually and post my results if I find anything useful.