Cisco PIX 525 Not Booting

[TejvirSingh]

Hi, 

My Cisco PIX 525 is not booting. I have connected console and found below message...

"CISCO SYSTEMS PIX FIREWALL

Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.207 01/02/02 16:12:22.73

Compiled by morlee

256 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-525
System Flash=E28F128J3 @ 0xfff00000

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt flash boot.
Use SPACE to begin flash boot immediately.
Flash boot in 10 seconds. 9 seconds. 8 seconds. 7 seconds.

Reading 102912 bytes of image from flash.

PIX Flash Load Helper

Initializing flashfs...
flashfs[0]: 9 files, 3 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 16128000
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 15216640
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 911360
flashfs[0]: Initialization complete.

Booting first image in flash

Launching image flash:/image.bin
######################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
256MB RAM"

Can someone help me what could be the reason and how to go further

Thanks 

[Cristian Matei]

Hi,

    You might need to replace CMOS battery. Before that, check this thread, perform all tests to see if there are any faults, and/or change the jumper settings: https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-booting-problem/td-p/487591

Regards,

Cristian.

[TejvirSingh · Accepted solution]

I have checked by remove and re enter eth card, replace CMOS battery but issue was still there. Then I have removed both the RAM and connected one by one. I have found 1 RAM as faulty. Right now only 1 RAM is connected and PIX is working agian. I will arrange another new RAM and will connect it in Cisco PIX.

Thanks - Tejvir Singh