I just bought a used Compaq Proliant 5500 server. I installed Linux on
it and all is working OK. I then wanted to have a look 'inside'. So I removed
the side cover and began to poke around a bit. I removed the CPU's and the
CPU Power Modules. I put them back in, just wanted to check them out.

I put the cover back on now it won't power on. The fans wil lnot come,
nothing. There are however some lights on the motherboard that are 'ON'. They a

Light color
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Memory off
CPU 4 on amber
CPU 3 on amber
CPU 2 on amber
CPU 1 on amber
I/O on amber


Then just below these lights there is another light that is on. It is
labeled "General Interlock Fault". It is on and Yellow.

GIF on yellow

Generally, I consider myself a hands on type of person in that I have
opened many comuters before, rebuilt them by replacing cards, disks, power
supplies, floppies, etc. Never ran into any major problems.

I think that in this case however, I didn't truly know what I was doing.
I suspect that anyway. I have since been reading about the Proliant 5500 and
found that there are some security features that I don't know much about.

From HP's web site, I have foundthe Proliant 5500 web site and see
in the product description the following:

Security
Power-on password; keyboard password; Quicklock; QuickBlank;
Network Server Mode; Diskette Boot Control;
Diskette Drive Control; Serial Interface Control;
Parallel Interface Control; System Configuration Lock;
Administrator's Password; Protected Power Switch.


I can't seem to find any more information about these security features.
I suspect that I violated some security feature (by removing thew CPU's?) on
this sysem and it now won't power on until I do something. But I'm not sure
of this and if I'm right, I've no idea what I nee to do to get it to power on.

I'm going to continue looking for info on these security features, but if
anyone knows anything about, if oyu could guide me as to what I need to do to
get this machine to power on, it would be greatly apprecieated.



Thanks, Jim




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Jim
balson AT comcast DOT net