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Definitely. Most of my Dell machines take 2-5 minutes to get to the "booting OS" part of the process, but a couple of them have at times taken 3 hours. The l
by linsomniac 8y ago
Definitely. Most of my Dell machines take 2-5 minutes to get to the "booting OS" part of the process, but a couple of them have at times taken 3 hours.
The latter is probably a firmware bug, but the best Dell ProSupport has been able to do to solve it is "flea drain" (unplug, hold the power button for 60 seconds, plug back in).
- arghwhat 8y agoDell servers are notoriously slow to boot, but this is due to the remote management subsystem being extremely slow. It's quite a pain in the arse, and one of the reasons we prefer to use Supermicro machines for development at work, using only Dell for testing.