Hi,
I recently purchased unraid and build myself a system out of old hardware I had around. This worked all rather well and I started to move all my data onto the system. Yesterday I installed a new SATA Controller (BEYIMEI PCIe 5Port). After booting it seemed to work - but somehow not all attached drives were recognized but at least some so that I though the card seems to be working.
So I shutdown the system and reattached the cables and turned on the system again. But since then I cant boot anymore. It just stops at bzroot....ok
- I ran memtest for about 4 hours - no problems there.
- disconnected the Sata Controller - didn't help
- disconnected every SATA device - didn't help
- formated my usb stick and put a new instance of unraid on it - didn't help
- shutdown the system and let it rest for a few hours (i read somewhere that it could be a temperature problem)
It could be related to the usb stick (a Sandisk Extreme 32 GB stick) - I ordered a new one from the recommended list. But it only gets here tomorrow. But it worked for two weeks before yesterday... and continues to work on my main machine???
As for the installed hardware in General (that I haven't disconnected so far)
ASRock Z270M Extreme4
i7 7700k
32GB Ram
M.2 SSD
Any ideas what happened here and what I should do to get this working again?
And just to reiterate - this worked flawlessly for about 2 weeks, with exactly this USB stick etc. All that changed was the SATA Controller which I removed already.