GA-X58A-UD7 Stuck at Verifying DMI Pool Data for 8 mins

[Mad Professor]

Hi All.

I am looking for some help and advice with a problem that I am having with my whitebox server build.

As per the topic title, I am having an issue that the system will just sit at "Verifying DMI Pool Data ............." for 8 minutes, then it will continue to boot just fine.

The whitebox server is running ESXi 6.0 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0).

Current whitebox server

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (Rev 2.0) / Bios Version: FD (2012/11/09)
Intel Xeon X5570 Quad Core 2.93 GHz
24GB (6x4GB) PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 ECC M393B5170GB0-CH9Q8
Matrox G550-LP-PCIE
HP Smart Array P410 Controller
Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter
Crucial
WDC WD40EFRX
WDC WD40EFRX
WDC WD40PURX
WDC WD20EARS
WDC WD20EARS
Seasonic SS-620GB

Previous whitebox server

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (Rev 1.0) / Bios Version: ?? (?/??/??)
Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad Processor 2.40 GHz
4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2-800 Corsair CM2X2048-6400C5DHX
2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 DDR2-800 Kingston RMD2-800/1G
Matrox G550-LP-PCIE
HP Smart Array P410 Controller
Intel Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter
Crucial
WDC WD40EFRX
WDC WD40EFRX
WDC WD40PURX
WDC WD20EARS
WDC WD20EARS
Seasonic SS-620GB

Does anyone here have any ideas of what is going on?

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

[shadowsports]

Start with this.  CLR_CMOS.  Re-configuring from scratch. 

Now look for Reset Configuration Data, and if available, enable or reset.  Retest boot.

Failing again, Disconnect all drives except the boot drive, test boot, and reconnect one disk at a time testing start up after each connection.