IBM S822LC 8335 Power 8 2U Server

[ChosenElite]

Can't seem to get this thing to boot, (If it wasn't so expensive, I'd beat it with a hammer!

all memory slots are filled with 16GB sticks, for a total of 512GB

IBM 8335-GTB S822LC 2U Rack Server

MACHINE TYPE 8335 option 2147

CPU: 2x POWER8 10-Core 3.259GHz CPU

Memory: 0 GB DDR4 (Please Note that all Memory slots must be populated for this unit to work)

Hard Drives:
-1x 1TB 7.2k 2.5" SATA HDD

Controllers:
- 1x 00E2865 2x 1GbE, 2x 10G SFP+ Network Adapter ELSZ

GPU
-4x Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU option Pcie SXM2 EC4D, EJTY

Power Supply
- 2x 1300W PSU

 

[BlueFox]

Is this your first time dealing with a POWER based system? If so, you're in for quite the project. Operation is very different from anything x86 based. Looks like your firmware is corrupt or you have hardware issues. Can you get into the BMC? I don't think the PNOR chip is socketed on most (or any for that matter) motherboards, so it might be hosed if you still have issues after reflashing it.

 

[blockofdynamite]

I know this is an old thread, but I just started messing with an S822LC and experienced that errror in PNOR flash message, which seemed to go away by going through the firmware update process again via the bmc's web interface.

Unfortunately it's seeming like this machine isn't very useful at all since nothing interesting that uses GPUs (pytorch / stable diffusion/ llm stuff) even works on powerpc. Rebuilding software doesn't work so well since there are like a million dependencies. It idles at around 700-900 watts. Just not worth it.