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Big news I finally got the system to run stabally for more than a few hours. I had bad ram sticks, failed testing at slower speeds. 3 our of 4 sticks went bad, but not in a way that kept the system from POSTing. With the RAM being bad, I moved the docker.img to one of my cashe pools and docker is stable. I pulled DDR4 sticks out of my main rig, and the ram sockets tested fine. I also identified a common cause of it crashing. When it accessed the drives on the 3rd and 4th connector on the HBA. It's less crashy on the 3rd connector, leading credence to the theory that running the card at 4X when it's an 8X card made it sad. I swapped some cables around and the crashing behavior occurred when accessing drives on the 3rd and 4th connector. It would work for a bit, but if I tried copying files from those drives, it would start at 200mb/s, then it would slow down and then crash the system. I am putting in new ram sticks and a SATA card that works on 4x.

Well, that's not good. 3 out of 4 sticks are bad.

Like I said, the board is unable to boot legacy BIOS systems. There is no option in the UEFI settings to allow it. It sucks. I do have a few machines that I can throw the HBA into, just to check the bios, so it's not a huge deal. It crashed again while writing up this reply, Docker not running at all. About 36 hours of uptime and out of nowhere, crash. There was some odd behavior behavior before this crash, it was slow to load directories on the server over the network. I just updated the firmware, it was a few versions behind. I just got it to crash again, trying to move around network directories. It's likely what another user said, not enough lanes and when it tries to access the lanes it needs, it crashes the system.

I am running with Docker turned all the way off at the moment. I also took out the NVMe Drive that was reporting a ton of bad sectors. If anything, taking that off the PCIe bus should free up some lanes for both the GPU and HBA. I also have been trying to boot freeDOS to check the firmware on the card, and the board won't boot legacy boot items. I may have to pull the card and put it in another machine that can boot legacy and has PCIe unless I can find a way to do the upgrade with a linux live environment.

Yep, I think you're right. The system is running it in X4, and it's an X8 card. I tried to force the board to do x8-x8, and it refused to post. it posts in Crypto Mining mode, which apparently allows PCIe cards to address more memory above 4G The way it sounds, I need to either drop in an APU, and ditch the 1650, or go back to 1x Sata controllers. EDIT The cache disk where the system dumps itself on boot is on it's way out. I am in the process of moving everything off that cache pool and onto another.

Ah, it crashed so hard, I couldn't SSH in.

I just went down, here is the log. I also saw a ton of "nvidia" on the screen before I rebooted the system. log_20250129.log tower-syslog-20250205-1152.zip tower-syslog-20250205-1952.zip

I upgraded from a cheap SATA board to a full on HBA. Grabbed a Adaptec ASR-71605 on ebay and it keeps crashing my system after a few days of uptime. System runs fine, nothing seems to lead up to to the crash, it's running then it falls over on itself. The adapter is in HBA mode, no BIOS is installed on it, I never got the BBU battery. Could my card be a dud or is it misconfigured? I suspect I could be running out of PCI lanes. The CPU is a Ryzen 5800X, and I have a GTX 1650 for hardware transcoding and AI upscaling installed as well. I also suspect it could be unraid itself not liking the card.

I finally got a automated response. I included my GUIDs in the initial email.

I did not get an email saying a ticket was created.

I experienced a catastrophic failure with my boot drive. Luckily I had my key backed up. Unraid is giving me the GUID error, but I can't get a new key. I dunno what I am doing wrong. I've reached out to Unraid directly via the support function and sent my old GUID and my New GUID, and I haven't heard back.

I have to start fresh with unraid due to a catastrophic failure of my boot medium. I did keep the key backed up, but not a whole flash drive backup (I aint that smert). I watched SpaceinvaderOne's video at least a dozen times, but things aren't matching up. I sign in on the popup window from the replace key button, and it says the "finish key replacement button" will appear and it doesn't appear. What do I need to do?