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Apex Console has glitchy display for a short time during initial booting up

Symptoms/Issue

During startup, the main screen(s) of the Apex display a glitchy and distorted version of the ETC logo.  It goes away after a few seconds and the console continues to boot normally

Description/Explanation of Issue

The blue streaks / glitching / scratchy ETC logo during bootup on Apex consoles is undesirable but it is not unexpected. It occurs due to the handoffs between motherboard, RAM, and SSD during the boot process, as well as the screens themselves getting initialized.  It does not indicate any sort of problem.

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