Hey @spike32I have had the exact same issue as you with a probox. After having my box offline while i was overseas from a power outage I put some time into figuring it out and found a fix!!!
Ill give you a number of steps that I did, but it could be as simple as this one key thing.
Solution
Switch to Legacy mode save and restart
Go to the UEFI boot order and disable USB boot (The probox seems to come up under uefi USB boot if you remove all the hard drives and this is where its killing the HP bios. But id does not appear as a legacy boot device).
Set your unraid USB as the primary boot device for Legacy boot.
More detailed steps for the bios:
Enable Legacy boot and disable secure boot
Advanced > Secure boot configuration > configure legacy support
Set to "Legacy support enable and secure boot disable"
Save and exit to restart and go back into bios
Disable USB on UEFI
Advanced > Boot Options > (UEFI and Legacy boot order should be available to set now)
UEFI Boot Order
Go into this, select USB and push f5 to disable it
Legacy Boot Order
Set your Unraid USB as the primary boot
Save and exit the bios - This should stop it from freezing up
That should fix it for you, it fixed mine. I tried a bunch of other settings as well, but doing this finally stopped it freezing up. Now I can navigate bios etc with the probox connected.
NOTE: Bios will freeze for about 10seconds or so when the Probox starts up and scans the drives, but then it will continue.