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Cisco 3550 keeps asking me to flash?
I recieved a 24 port Cisco 3550 which is starting to exhibit problems. Once every couple of weeks the switch will begin asking me to press a key to flash it when I boot it up, some automated flash sequence happens and everything seems to work ok after it. I'm trying to track down the issue, mainly to find out if it's a hardware specific problem or a problem with a bad flash and/or software issue.
To me, it looks like someone may have tried to upgrade it to an EMI IOS and something messed up in the process, but I can't be sure.
Here is some information on the switch:
#show version
Cisco IOS Software, C3550 Software (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version 12.2(25)SE, RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 10-Nov-04 18:07 by yenanh
ROM: Bootstrap program is C3550 boot loader
uptime is 9 hours, 54 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c3550-i5q3l2-mz.122-25.SE/c3550-i5q3l2-mz.122-25.SE.
bin"
Cisco WS-C3550-24 (PowerPC) processor (revision H0) with 65526K/8192K bytes of m
emory.
Processor board ID CAT0727Y21F
Last reset from warm-reset
Running Layer2/3 Switching Image
Any help would be appreciated.
To me, it looks like someone may have tried to upgrade it to an EMI IOS and something messed up in the process, but I can't be sure.
Here is some information on the switch:
#show version
Cisco IOS Software, C3550 Software (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version 12.2(25)SE, RELEASE
SOFTWARE (fc)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 10-Nov-04 18:07 by yenanh
ROM: Bootstrap program is C3550 boot loader
uptime is 9 hours, 54 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c3550-i5q3l2-mz.122-25.SE/c3550-i5q3l2-mz.122-25.SE.
bin"
Cisco WS-C3550-24 (PowerPC) processor (revision H0) with 65526K/8192K bytes of m
emory.
Processor board ID CAT0727Y21F
Last reset from warm-reset
Running Layer2/3 Switching Image
Any help would be appreciated.