{"id":303,"date":"2010-11-04T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:25:58","slug":"dx360-m2-bios-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"dx360 m2 BIOS settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of SC&#8217;10 Sumavi will be installing the IBM iDataplex demo rack.\u00a0 As such, I got a pair of iDataplex dx360s to install.\u00a0 I fired them up and they both started running.\u00a0 The cool thing about these machines is that they are much quieter than what I remember.\u00a0 The BIOS updates or something must have fixed this.\u00a0 So kudos to that.<\/p>\n<p>The other cool thing about the iDataplex dx360 M2 is that I can just plug it into my wall and it starts booting right away.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the suckiness:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Booting up takes forever.\u00a0 This is the same as the HP BL460c G6s I just had.\u00a0 For some reason the industry has decided that longer boot up times may save time somewhere else.<\/li>\n<li>The BIOS updates are well&#8230; not as fast.\u00a0 There were a few times I was waiting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So those are my initial impressions.\u00a0 Now, the first cool thing to do is the BIOS settings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.software.ibm.com\/systems\/support\/system_x\/dx360m2_dx360m3-cmos-settings-v1.2.txt\">ftp:\/\/ftp.software.ibm.com\/systems\/support\/system_x\/dx360m2_dx360m3-cmos-settings-v1.2.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the boot up will still be slow, with these options in place it seems to go much faster.\u00a0 Since PXE booting is how you manage these things then its a pretty good setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of SC&#8217;10 Sumavi will be installing the IBM iDataplex demo rack.\u00a0 As such, I got a pair of iDataplex dx360s to install.\u00a0 I fired them up and they both started running.\u00a0 The cool thing about these machines is that they are much quieter than what I remember.\u00a0 The BIOS updates or something must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,16,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}