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  • 1.  no heartbeat PSoD

    Posted Sep 09, 2013 02:51 PM

    I am getting PSoD's when no VM's are running. All KB's that mention 'no heartbeat' messages say turn off vmkernel.boot.usePCC but that was turned off by default and I don't see it listed in the Advanced Settings after I updated ESXi.

    Also, no power management settings are enabled in ESXi or in the BIOS.

    Any assistance in deciphering the screenshot of a recent PSoD is greatly appreciated.

    Running:

    VMware ESXi 5.1.0

    Server specs:

    2 x  Intel PWLA8391GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI Desktop Adapter PRO/1000 GT

    1 x ASRock P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

    1 x HIS H677FN1GD Radeon HD 6770

    1 x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL

    1 x Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz



  • 2.  RE: no heartbeat PSoD

    Posted Sep 09, 2013 07:53 PM

    Upon closer inspection, it looks like this PSoD is related to e1000 (NIC). The motherboard has an onboard Realtek NIC which I disabled through the BIOS. If anything new happens I'll update this post.



  • 3.  RE: no heartbeat PSoD

    Posted Sep 10, 2013 10:25 PM

    Still crashing... It looks like it is the e1000 adapter for the Intel NIC. Any ideas on how to fix this?



  • 4.  RE: no heartbeat PSoD

    Posted Sep 17, 2014 11:16 AM

    Hello,

    any clue about this issue ? we had the same PSOD screen on 2 full IBM Bladecenters with VMs running on it.

    Regards,