Node unable to boot after being powered down for extended period of time

Applies to

• FAS2650
• Node powered off for extended period of time

Issue

• Node is unable to boot after being powered down for an extended period of time
• SP console repeatedly shows ASCII characters

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oâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’o
â–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’oo
â–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ–’â–’ooâ–’â–’oâ

• Motherboard reseated but issue remains
• SP console logs confirm node is able to boot

Configuring Devices ...

CPU = 1 Processor(s) Detected.
  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1528 @ 1.90GHz (CPU 0)
  CPUID: 0x00050663. Cores per Processor = 6
32768 MB System RAM Installed.
SATA (AHCI) Device: SV9MST6D120GLM41NP

Boot Loader version 6.0.3
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Portions Copyright (C) 2002-2018 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Starting AUTOBOOT press Ctrl-C to abort...
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image2/kernel:0x200000/14895392 0x1034920/13845920 Entry at 0xffffffff802d6c30
Loading X86_64/freebsd/image2/platform.ko:0x1d69000/3034816 0x204e000/477856 0x20c2aa0/583568
Starting program at 0xffffffff802d6c30