Dell GX280 NMI parity error loading BARTPE

[hasbrotech]

I have a Dell GX280 that when I load BARTPE and it tries to load the NIC driver the system halts witha NMI parity error.

Ive updated the NIC drivers in Bart to the latest Broadcom for the 280, and have updated my Bios to A05 on the Dell.

Any ideas what might be going on ?

[Jazkal]

do you have a riser card in the system?

[hasbrotech]

if you mean do I have a PCI riser card for expansion cards yes I do.

[Jazkal]

I would run a test. Remove the riser card and test BartPE. I would bet it is a problem with the riser card and interaction with BartsPE. This would narrow down the possible issue.

[hasbrotech]

Pulled the riser card and still have same issue.

I have updated the bios to A05, and even tried new memory.

any other ideas ??

[Jazkal]

The only other thing I can think of, is to disable the NIC is the BIOS (if possible). Then test it. we want to narrow it down to a specific item, that we can say "when we turn this off, it works".

[hasbrotech]

disabled the nic card and bart loads. while it loads, it does give me an error regarding cant load the nic, or network which is fine.

well, let me goto broadcom and see what they have to say about this.

thanks for your help. any other idea, please let me know !

hasbrotech !

[mats]

Uppgrade the broadcom driver. This is a known issue

[hasbrotech]

Have and still have same issues.

I disabled the broadcom and installed a 3com and BARTPE loaded fine and had no issues.

I got the latest driver 57XX from broadcom, dated back in april.