pix firewall boots halfway and hangs

[daemibros]

i have a problem with my pix 525.it starts to boot and then hangs at that spot forever.m  not sure if its an ios issue or not

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  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.
Reading 102912 bytes of image from flash.

PIX Flash Load Helper

Initializing flashfs...
flashfs[0]: 7 files, 3 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 16128000
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 13952512
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 2175488
flashfs[0]: Initialization complete.

Booting first image in flash

Launching image flash:/image
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256MB RAM

Total NICs found: 5
mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 10  MAC: 001a.a2a4.4dc2
mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 11  MAC: 001a.a2a4.4dc3

[Herbert Baerten · Accepted solution]

Looks more like a hardware problem with a PCI bus or with the 4-port ethernet card.

Well I'm assuming you have a 4-port ethernet card, so 6 ports in total, but the device is only seeing 5.

Looks like device 06 is missing on bus 01 so one of the ports on the 4-port card is not recognised.

Does it boot ok if you remove that card?

hth

Herbert

[daemibros]

it works now....i removed the

card and reinserted,cleaned the cmos battery (kinda like resetting it) ,coupled it n it works jus fine.