[c-nsp] C3500XL POST FAILURE: Switch Core ASIC too old

[Paul Cairney]

I tried to update a 3508 to 12.0(5)WC10 from a 11.something in order to 
use a 1000-T gbic and it refused to boot with "C3500XL POST FAILURE: 
Switch Core ASIC too old". Full boot text is shown below.

Google tells me nothing about this error, has anyone else experienced it 
before?

I am presuming I will have to revert to an older IOS train, any idea 
which versions this switch will actually support?

Regards,

Paul
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C3500XL Boot Loader (C3500-HBOOT-M) Version 11.2(0.0.57)SA6, CISCO 
DEVELOPMENT TEST VERSION
Compiled Tue 09-Mar-99 13:07 by jchristy
 starting...                           
Base ethernet MAC Address: 00:50:54:94:56:40
Xmodem file system is available.           
Initializing Flash...          
flashfs[0]: 17 files, 3 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 3612672                   
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 2926592
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 686080
flashfs[0]: flashfs fsck took 4 seconds.
..done Initializing Flash.            
Boot Sector Filesystem (bs:) installed, fsid: 3
Parameter Block Filesystem (pb:) installed, fsid: 4
Loading 
"flash:c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin"...################################################################################################################################################################################

File "flash:c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.120-5.WC10.bin" uncompressed and installed, 
entry point: 0x3000
executing... 
             
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Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C3500XL Software (C3500XL-C3H2S-M), Version 12.0(5)WC10, 
RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Fri 28-May-04 09:19 by antonino
Image text-base: 0x00003000, data-base: 0x00351754

Initializing C3500XL flash...
flashfs[1]: 17 files, 3 directories
flashfs[1]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[1]: Total bytes: 3612672
flashfs[1]: Bytes used: 2926592
flashfs[1]: Bytes available: 686080
flashfs[1]: flashfs fsck took 4 seconds.
flashfs[1]: Initialization complete.
..done Initializing C3500XL flash.
C3500XL POST: System Board Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: Daughter Card Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: CPU Buffer Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: CPU Notify RAM Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: CPU Interface Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: Testing Switch Core: Passed
C3500XL POST: Testing Buffer Table: Passed
C3500XL POST: Data Buffer Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: Configuring Switch Parameters: Passed
C3500XL POST: Ethernet Controller Test: Passed
C3500XL POST: MII Test: Passed
C3500XL POST FAILURE: Switch Core ASIC too old