Red Squirrel

I think I have a success! Given it did it in another machine, and the fact that it was all 3 cards, I started to have a hunch it had to do with my dos environment. After trying many things, I ended up disabling emm386 for kicks to see what happens.... and it worked! I did not try the bios update as I was only doing that because I thought it would fix the flash issue. When I tried flashing, it worked! I did not test the cards yet, but it looks good so far... I'm doing the 2nd card now. My 3 other cables came in today, so I'm crossing my fingers that everything works when I plug it in and I'll have myself a fully operational server ready to install an OS! As for the matching SAS address, can I just specify another when I flash it?

Yep exact same. That's my luck lol. Never thought of ram... suppose it's a possibility. Memtest86+ just locks up, but the old memtest runs.... so I wonder if it's indeed that. I have the worse luck with computer builds and everything always points to ram but no matter how many times I change it it's not that. But maybe I'll get lucky. I don't have any spare ram, only non ECC. Will that work at all?

Thanks for the informative thread, unfortunately, I have the most terrible luck with these things and none of it is working, I'm hoping I can get some help, or get a recommendation for an alternative card that is plug and play and will simply pass the drives to the OS. This is my specs: Chasis: SUPERMICRO SuperChassis CSE-846A-R1200B Black 4U Rackmount Server Case 1200W Redundant 3x Sata card: IBM ServeRaid M1015 CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230 V2 Quad Core Processor 3.3GHZ 8MB LGA1155 69W Retail Box Mobo: Supermicro MBD-X9SCM LGA1155 C204 DDR3 ECC 6SATA 4PCIE 2GBE IPMI 9USB2.0 mATX Motherboard Ram: Supermicro MEM-DR380L-HL01-EU13 8GB DDR3-1333 240PT 1.5V DIMM CL9 ECC Server Memory SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5in SATA3 MDX Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD I looked at lot of guides through this forum and other forums and came up with the following steps: (Let me know if I miss anything) <Boot off DOS USB stick> Type in the following exactly: megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin megarec -cleanflash 0 <reboot, go in UEFI boot> FSx: execute: Shell_Full.efi sas2flash.efi -l Flashlog.txt -o -f 2118it.bin sas2flash.efi -o -sasadd 500605bxxxxxxxxx <reboot> Done! I get an issue right when I try to use the megarec command. This is the error I get: On another system I get a similar error: I then decided to flash my bios as recommended, but even that, I can't do, this is the error I get when I run the ami_2.bat file (I'm already on 2.0) I am doing 1 card at a time, I get these issues with all 3 cards. Also, 2 of the cards have the same SAS address, if I do manage to get this working, is that going to be an issue? I also used the command to list the adaptors (not booted in so I forget it off hand) and it does detect it. I also tried it in another slot.