Hi,
We got a few 515E sent far away recently. They were running 7.0(4) without any problems here, however once they arrived at their final destination two of them did not boot and stayed in reboot loop. It looks like
CISCO SYSTEMS PIX FIREWALL
Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.207 01/02/02 16:12:22.73
Compiled by morlee
128 MB RAM
PCI Device Table.
Bus Dev Func VendID DevID Class Irq
00 00 00 8086 7192 Host Bridge
00 07 00 8086 7110 ISA Bridge
00 07 01 8086 7111 IDE Controller
00 07 02 8086 7112 Serial Bus 9
00 07 03 8086 7113 PCI Bridge
00 0D 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 11
00 0E 00 8086 1209 Ethernet 10
00 11 00 14E4 5823 Co-Processor 11
00 13 00 8086 B154 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
01 04 00 8086 1229 Ethernet 11
01 05 00 8086 1229 Ethernet 10
01 06 00 8086 1229 Ethernet 9
01 07 00 8086 1229 Ethernet 5
Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (4.2) #0: Mon Dec 31 08:34:35 PST 2001
Platform PIX-515E
System Flash=E28F128J3 @ 0xfff00000
Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt flash boot.
Use SPACE to begin flash boot immediately.
Flash boot in 10 seconds.Reading 123392 bytes of image from flash.
CISCO SYSTEMS PIX FIREWALL
Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.207 01/02/02 16:12:22.73
Compiled by morlee
128 MB RAM
etc.
There are no problems with downloading image from ROM monitor mode and running it. Flash seems to be OK as well, it is accessible, it can be formatted, new image can be written and it stays there. So I assume there is some problem with load helper.
Inside the firewalls look OK, there are no visible mechanical defects.
What seemd to be strange, only two units of many got this problem. Not less, not more. It does not matter actually, although it is a kind of a mistery.
I am seeking an advise -- what could be done to fix it. I am under impression something is wrong with ROM, although I can be wrong.
No, we do not have a service contract on them. Do not ask why, I am not one, who made this decision.
Thank you,
Pavel
