randy34lime

That was the problem - just needed to do this in the right order. It now boots from the USB stick. I appreciate the help Rajahal!

Okay, I'm back - it's been a long week at work. I got a new USB stick and put unRAID on it tried to have it boot but got the same problem. I've tried both the front and back USB ports (I've got a Norco 4220 case) with both USB sticks both don't boot automatically. I've attached a few screen shots of the BIOS settings - maybe I missed something? Upon boot, I get this message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected drive". At the end of the day, it doesn't matter that much if I can't get this to work - I can get it to boot using F8 and once its running, its fine.

I've got a new Lexar 2GB Firefly stick that I'm using. I configured the BIOS the way you indicated and when it boots, it just can't find a device to boot from. If I use the F8 boot menu option at startup, it sees the Firefly in the menu and I can boot from there. I'll give it another try - maybe I didn't get it quite right. I will also try another USB stick to see if that is related.

Rajahal - I can confirm that this mobo will work with two AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards simultaneously. I had three new drives in the box, each connected to a different backplane (one to the mobo SATA ports and one each to the MV8 cards) running preclear at the same time. I couldn't, however, get your trick with the BIOS to automatically boot from the USB drive. For some reason, it cannot find the USB stick on boot-up.