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I have an "old" setup, its a xeon x5650 on a gigabyte x58a ud3r, i have no clue what revision it is. I bought this motherboard on ebay and when i got it everything went together without a hitch, and it took its time posting like most pcs do when on a first boot. But what was wierd and still happens every time i boot up the pc, is that the bios splash screen (im talking about the GIGABYTE logo screen and the labels for nav on boot.) it is just a bunch of multicolored rectangles all over the place but if i press tab then it takes me to the post "log" where i can see everything initializing. It isnt a necessity to fix it but i would like to know why its doing that and if i can fix it with a bios update or to just reinstall the same bios on it to fix the assumed bug 

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Server grade hardware typically takes longer to POST - I wouldn't worry about that.

 

As for the multicolored rectangles, can you maybe take a picture to show us? From what you're describing it sounds like it might be a monitor test image?

75% of what I say is sarcastic

 

So is the rest probably

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i would consider this more prosumer for that time than server hardware, its single socket and supports overclocking but keeps all the perks of the xeons with ecc ram support because the memory controller isnt on the board but inside the cpu, but here are the pictures you asked for, this doesnt look like monitor test, it looks like a bug, but i know next to nothing about this older hardware on the software side. it bounces between these two pictures until it verifies everything during post

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