I have a server that has been running fine for many years. 5700G on an MSI B450 motherboard. 6 HDDs and a WD Black SSD. I have tried installing a 5060 ti today. To get the system to boot I had to downgrade from PCIe 3 to 2. If I go back, the system boot loops. When I get into unraid, all of my HDDs appear in their correct spots (mix of parity and main array). For my cache, it shows my SSD as a new disk with the blue logo though. I am worried that if I attempt to boot with this, it will wipe my cache drive. Nothing should have changed in terms of the SSD, it's in the same slot, it's not shared with the PCIe slot the GPU has gone into, but I think downgrading the PCIe version has changed something and unraid is seeing it as a new drive. Looking in my diagnostics export, the smart/* file entries for the old and new are identical. What's my best route here? I want to update the firmware on the GPU so I can enable v3 again, but to do that I need to start the array. Am I better off using a windows USB to update the firmware and then go back to unraid, or can I start the array in this state? Diagnostics attached and any help massively appreciated.
tower-diagnostics-20260310-1557.zip