Is it normal for servers to take an eon to boot?
I have two "server class" machines/boards now, with ECC RAM. Both take an eon and a half to boot.
The specific one I have is a Supermicro board with an atom c2550 chip in it. It takes forever, almost a minute before it initializes vga if at all (for some reason it doesn't even init the onboard VGA port, I have to stick in a PCIe card). Machine almost seems dead before then.
The other machine is an Itanium machine, likewise does not init VGA until at least a few minutes after power up.
Yes perhaps it's because I'm used to consumer quality equipment that initialize vga pretty much right away or at least a few seconds you can see BIOS startup, but is this normal for server class machines?
I have two "server class" machines/boards now, with ECC RAM. Both take an eon and a half to boot.
The specific one I have is a Supermicro board with an atom c2550 chip in it. It takes forever, almost a minute before it initializes vga if at all (for some reason it doesn't even init the onboard VGA port, I have to stick in a PCIe card). Machine almost seems dead before then.
The other machine is an Itanium machine, likewise does not init VGA until at least a few minutes after power up.
Yes perhaps it's because I'm used to consumer quality equipment that initialize vga pretty much right away or at least a few seconds you can see BIOS startup, but is this normal for server class machines?
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