[ale] computer hangs at boot: Checking NVRAM

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:00 -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> When I boot my computer it hangs for about 5 minutes during the POST
> test displaying "Checking NVRAM".  I've got an ATI bios, Tyan S2885
> motherboard with dual opterons.  It started doing this within the last
> week.
> 
> If I leave it long enough it seems to boot okay, but I'd like to get
> past it a little quicker.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.

That's not a good thing. I hope the board is still under warranty as
those are rather pricey. In short, the NVRAM test should happen so fast
that the message display is a  blink. Try the usual suspects: reseat
everything on the board, do the bios jumper pull to default mode (if
this doesn't clear the problem, it's serious). Also try with only 1 cpu.

It smells like a warranty issue to me.

Last idea: try the boot up with a different power supply. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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