ysma500

@techsperion I have found and fixed my issue 🙂 When you made me doubt my hardware, I came across this post on reddit: https://amp.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4r3uei/my_plex_server_keeps_powering_off_when_transcoding/ . TL;dr My psu was bad, I replaced it by a slightly stronger one and iGpu transcoding works like a charm! Thank you again for this awesome guide, Ysma500

So yeah, I was wondering if I was doing something wrong before putting the blame on hardware. I didn't explained my idea clearly about "cpu transcoding". What I meant was that I can transcode using cpu cores instead of Quicksync, but then it is making my machine slower because of cpu usage. I've been using this method for the last 3 weeks without any crash. For the "clean power" part of things, my box is connected to a UPS CyberPower 1500VA battery side to keep it running clean: here's Unraid info read of the ups. Really tried stuff over here... wondering if my "iGPU enabling" in BIOS isn't done the right way. I'm more of a AMD guy and not that familiar with Intel Bios setup. This was my brother's PC, and this motherboard is like no one I've ever seen, wondering if Asus played a little with the standard feature sets of z170 bios. Here's my dashboard to have an overview of my setup: Thank you for the fast reply, Ysma500 A slightly less bummed Canadian.

First of all, this is the best tutorial I've found to set this up step by step. So, I've been trying to make this work for 2 months now using tutorial over tutorial and always leading to the same weird issue. New to Unraid and new to Plex but I have some knowledge on Ubuntu, docker and networking. Machine hw is: i7-6700k running at stock, On a Asus z170 Sabertooth Mark 1 on most recent bios version, 32 Gb of Ddr4 at 2133Mhz, With 6 hdd and 2 ssd in an array. All of that on a 650w psu. My problem: I can do every steps and validate that they are done by having the device in the container's file system. As soon as I setup hardware decoding in plex's settings and test it with any file, server crashes, immediately close and has a bad time booting back up (some times taking 3-4 restarts before starting bios and then unraid). I can transcode on cpu fine but to a max of 2-3 streams and my other containers (which I disabled to test plex) can become slow-ish. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong and what logs or screen captures I could give to diagnose this as everything instantly closes. Ysma500 A sad Canadian.