Hi, I noticed that the HP DL380 servers that I've been working with lately wait a random amount of time before running the BIOS (up to 120sec) so that if you boot up many machines at the same time they won't have the power spikes at the same time when starting the fans and the disks.
Still, the BIOS itself is quite slow too, taking quite a lot of time, especially when it initializes the RAID controllers. I didn't measure it but it may be even more than a minute, including all the delays that can be skipped if you press Escape. Regards, Cristi -- Cristi Măgherușan, System/Network Engineer Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://cc.utcluj.ro +40264 401247
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