On Tue, 26 May 2026 18:20:26 +0000 "SlowServers Admin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi misc@, > > I have two Supermicro X9SBAA servers in a rack. These are Atom > S1260 systems with 8GB of ECC memory. > > I noticed that one of them was beeping while flashing an alarm > light. There were no symptoms otherwise, but obviously this is > concerning. Is it possible that this is the IPMI side of that board throwing a fit? Those have a nasty tendency to throw a loud beeping alarm as described, and are a secondary isolated computer system running on the board. Maybe the ipmi is going offline and whining independent of events on the main part of the system? (fwiw, I am also in the X9SBAA + maxed out 8GB ECC club) > > I tried with spread spectrum on and off in the BIOS. PSU voltages > looked normal. I eventually lowered the clock with setperf=1 and > did not hear the alarm after that, but I'm not confident if it's > going off or not. I wish I knew if it was going off because I > don't want to annoy anyone else in the datacenter. It's a very > loud alarm. > > Are there any interfaces exposed to OpenBSD (and maybe accessible > through sysctl) that can tell me if an alarm is going off, or that > might help me diagnose it? The system has never crashed or done > anything weird otherwise. Maybe some way to see if there are ECC > errors that are being fixed on the fly? > > Very perplexing. I would appreciate any tips you can suggest. > > Please include me in replies as this account is not on misc@. > > Thank you! > > -Slow Servers >
