Hello,
I have 2 C6100 servers that are currently giving me major problems. An itemized list of the problems all seem related though to the BMC.
1) When booting I noticed during POST that there is a message that says "BMC not responding".
2) When booting to the BIOS and I select "IPMI configuration" the server reboots or the BIOS freezes up entirely until rebooted (soft or hard).
3) IPMI drivers don't load anymore on the host OS, unable to do anything with ipmitool.
Both servers started doing this during an attempt to flash a firmware update to the BMC, which we got from here: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/poweredge-c6100/drivers
After the upgrade attempt the devices got stuck in maintenance mode, so we drained flea power, reset the CMOS, following instructions from previous articles on C6100. BIOS updates seem to work just fine as long as the IPMI drivers are working, but not we can't even get the BMC to respond at all, it's totally inaccessible.
Should we try resetting the CMOS again? Is there a way we can flash without using the OS (or should we just not update the firmware at all)?
Would like to know if these boards are salvageable or if we are better off replacing them.
Thank you,
Daniel