Sun Fire V890 Server
 
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• Part No: 501-7058-xx
• Part Description: 1500 MHz CPU/Memory Board (Panther)

This document is intended to assist Field Engineers on the correct technical reasons to troubleshoot, replace, and correctly seat Panther CPU/Memory boards so Benchmark will see a decrease in future NTF's (No Trouble Found).

They are being found NTF at Benchmark and are getting replaced unnecessarily.

Panther 1500MHz CPU/Memory boards don't support Solaris 8.

See following PTS URL's:

• http://pts-platform/twiki/bin/view/Products/ProdInfoSunFireV890
• http://pts-platform/twiki/bin/view/Products/ProdInfoSunFireV490

Please be aware of PTS Best Practices when seating any CPU/Memory board for the V890 and V490.  See following URL:

• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1017945.1

Follow correct PTS procedure when troubleshooting memory or CPU failures and how to tell the difference between these errors.  See following troubleshooting documents:

• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1006513.1
• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1006517.1
• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1006530.1
• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1006524.1

Also make sure when upgrading to Panther (from Jaguar) you have the correct OBP (4.18.1 or greater) or you will see POST errors similar to the following:

• https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1000843.1

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