Event ID - 1003

Event Id1003
SourceIPMIDRV
DescriptionThe IPMI device driver attempted to communicate with the IPMI BMC device during device creation. However the communication failed due to a timeout. Either the configured timeouts are too small and the IPMI BMC device responses take longer than the timeouts, or the BMC has a technical fault. You can increase the timeouts associated with the IPMI device driver or seek assistance from the BMC device manufacturer.
Event Information According to Microsoft :

Cause :

This event is logged when the IPMI device driver attempted to communicate with the IPMI BMC device during device creation.

Resolution :

Set IPMI parameters

Caution : Incorrectly editing the registry might severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data.

Modify the value of entries in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\HardwareManagement\IPMI

Verify and correct the value of these five entries: BusyWaitTimeoutPeriod, BusyWaitPeriod, IpmbWaitTimeoutPeriod, CommandWaitTimeoutPeriod , and SlaveAddressDetectionMethod . Contact your hardware vendor and ask them to recommend appropriate values.

To edit these registry values:
  1. Click the Start button .
  2. Type regedit in the search box and press Enter .
  3. Navigate to the IPMI registry key shown above and double-click the registry entry to edit it.
Verify :

To test that the IPMI driver is functioning correctly, check that it loaded successfully and check that the RequestResponseEx method of the Microsoft_IPMI WMI class returns a CompletionCode of 0 (Command completed normally.)

To check that the driver loaded successfully:
  1. Click on Start , then click on Start Search .
  2. Type Device Manager and click Enter to open the Device Manager window.
  3. Open the System devices node and locate Microsoft Generic IPMI Compliant Device .
  4. Note whether there is an exclamation mark beside the device name. If there is no exclamation mark, the driver has loaded successfully.
Reference LinksEvent ID 1003 from Source IPMIDRV

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