LH3 Slow boot.

[Stephen Salmon]

Hi there.

A freind of mine has an LH3 which has suddenly gone from booting up nice and quickly to taking approx 10 minutes to load windows.

It checks the ram. The waits for ages. It does the same with SCSI devices and after the Bios revision screen.

I suggested to him that maybe he has bad ram but there are no errors reported.

Any suggestions? Bios upgrade?

Thanks
Steve

[harry d brown jr]

Have them check for loose connections: disk cables, network, etc...

live free or die
harry

[Theo Hill_1]

Are they getting 0080 0090 errors on post? Have them try and update the BIOS, if possible. Also, clearing CMOS might be something to try.

[Chris Blumenshine]

Slow boot is a symptom of mmc issues, even if you don't have the mmc errors on post. One resolution would be to clear the mmc by unplugging the server for 2+ minutes and trying it again. Newer system bios will prevent the problem from occuring again.

[Adam_34]

check the termination :

maybe Symbios SCSI bus is not terminated

[Marino Meloni_1]

hi
If the boot time is slow on all the fase of the post, I think that Chris is right, a managment problem may be the cause.
Removing the power cable some time is not enouth, you need also to disconnect the Lan cable, serial or parallel connections, any other connection that can keep a pull-up signal on the pci bus.
this will clear the volatil memory of the managment and clear the problem (I hope)
bye

marino

[I_M]

Hi,

In my case, I had similar server. ooting slower and also selftest takes so long time but no errors.

I had called HP to repair it.
After so long time trouble shoot session, the engineer found co-processor of the Pentium was bad. Of course, we can not replace the co-processor only, the engineer rplace Pen2(slot1).

This is my 2cents.