Friarsgate_Customs

Sorry I should've specified in my original post about the ram. It's 16gb*4 2133hz sticks. It was old gaming PC parts I got in a trade, the guy had it on a Windows machine. All the windows related stuff has been wiped from the BIOS though when I reset the cmos battery and installed new BIOS firmware.

Yeah, I messed with all my settings on the old bios FW, updated to the latest FW, tried messing with all the settings again. No dice either way

I did see the menu on my gaming PC, but I just shut down the system after I saw that anything showed up at all, because that's further than I've got at all on my server PC. My apologies. Secure boot is off by default because "other OS" is selected in the drop-down instead of windows UEFI. I tried CSM disabling and enabling and flipping between legacy/uefi in all the subsections and still can't get it going.

I'm not sure what that is. This is a first time install for the trial, so I'm not super familiar with everything. It only does the flashing cursor black screen for 5-15 seconds before restarting back to BIOS. It never just sits there endlessly.

Yeah, I've tried USB 2 and 3 on the rear io. They say the case 2.0s shouldn't be used so I haven't tried those 2 on my server yet. The gaming PC that I got the drives to boot on was using USB 3 on the front of the case and it worked somehow.

Hey all, I recently put together a home server with a mix of some old parts I had sitting around. The build is an Asus Maximus Hero IX motherboard, Intel 7700k CPU,I think 64gb of basic ddr4 RAM, EVGA 400w psu, in a fratal design define r5. Storage is a 1tb m.2, 240gb 2.5 SSD, 120gb 2.5 ssd, and a 4tb HDD. I can't for the life of me get the unraid GUI to boot. I've made 2 bootable USB drives, a 16gb and a 32gb. I've made them both on the creation tool and ran the makebootable.bat for both. I've even tried wiping the 16gb drive, and manually making the boot drive with the zip from the site directory. Neither drive will boot on my server, but I tested them on my gaming PC and they booted without changing any bios settings besides the boot order. On my server PC, I've tried the following troubleshooting steps. In bios I've enabled/disabled fastboot, switched storage boot drives from "legacy only" to "UEFI driver first", changed USB storage device to forced-FDD. I've tried pretty much every USB port on the rear io as well as the case USBs. I made one of the USB drives EFI, and the other -EFI to force one to boot in legacy with the other being UEFI. I have both drives plugged in and one after the other in boot order, and both will just be a black screen with a flashing cursor before returning me to bios. I've tried unplugging my keyboard mouse combo while booting as well and still just get the flashing cursor before returning to bios. I can't disable USB 3.0/2.0 support, all I can do is disable the ports completely. I've updated the BIOS to the most recent. I've made an Ubuntu portable flash drive just to see if it was the motherboard refusing to boot with no dedicated GPU, but it booted fine with just Intel integrated graphics. I'm completely lost here. If you need me to clarify anything please ask. Thank you much.