Recently took delivery of a new R720, was configuring the RAID setup via the iDRAC remotely via virtual console, and the system became unresponsive. I tried reconnecting but was presented with the same frozen PERC config screen. A power cycle was then needed, this happened twice. On investigating the system log I found the following:
Both time the freeze happened after I tried to initialize the virtual disk in the PERC:
VDR32 Background initialization has started for Virtual Disk 0 on Integrated RAID Controller 1.
PCI1308 A PCI parity error was detected on a component at bus 0 device 5 function 0.
CPU9000 An OEM diagnostic event occurred.
Both freezes/lockup's had the same errors.
From reading around this the suggestions look to be reseat all PCI/PCI-E cards/devices and risers.
Anyone got any suggestions? Or encountered this before?