I had an Ultra 24 waiting for me at the Tulsa offices, and really, I never knew we had a Tulsa office and that it was a quarter mile from my house.

The machine was dead quiet when I turned it on and then it started to roar. The fans would not go off. The machine would actually not boot at all. All I could find were these forum posts - Ultra 24 FAN speed. I downloaded the 1.5 version of the BIOS and that did not help. After the reboot, the fans were still going. I then turned the machine off as I checked to make sure I hadn't disconnected anything when I added RAM. I hadn't, but the machine started to work after that. :->. I believe what was effectively a cold reboot enabled that.

The other thing I did notice is that the system came with Solaris 10. I went through the initial install screens and they appeared to be as sluggish as I remembered. I then installed OpenSolaris on the box (onnv_109) and the install screens there screamed. The UI was the same, the exact same series of screens, but the overall response level was much faster.

I've now recommissioned the machine name ultralord in my home domain.