On Apr 2, 2:27 pm, "p595pimp" <christiancolb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> we found this old p520 in storage and are trying to bring it up & put
> it on the network... for whatever reason, there is no documentation on
> this system, and the cd drive does not appear to be working (no power
> leds, no response from button, etc) so booting to AIX media is not an
> option at this moment, but worse than that, when consoling in, it
> looks to be booting to the SMS password prompt... asking for a USERID
> & password... tried the defaults of "admin/admin" & "general/general",
> but didn't accept them.
> --so--
> next step was taking the battery out of the Service Processor. (yes,
> for more than 5 minutes... more like 30).. which, in my previous
> experience, worked to reset the passwd to default.... this, however,
> is NOT working... its still saying that admin/admin, etc don't work.
> and BTW... we've tried all the other default passwd combos like
> abc123, passw0rd, everything we could think of...
> --so--
> anybody got ANY ideas what could be up with this machine???
>
> thanks alot in advance!
> -P

You need to reset toggle jumpers on the service processor.

To reset the jumpers,move both service processor toggle switches from
their current positions, to the opposite positions.
Additional info here:

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pser...f/a4a68mst.pdf

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...phby/iphby.pdf