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So I think I’ve got everything sorted out. I initially had the graphics card in PCIEX16_1 and the LSI HBA in PCIEX16_2. As soon as I added anything into any of the PCIEX1_x slots, then PCIEX16_2 will change from x4 to x1. Since I’m only using the video card for transcoding, I swapped the slots that it and the HBA are installed in and now my parity calculation is running nicely at about 170-180MB/s with the NVME risers in PCIEX1_1 and PCIEX1_3 (PCIEX1_2 is blocked since the video card is a double height card).

Thanks for the assistance.  I was never able to get the system to stay up long enough to start the array in maintenance mode.  I replaced the motherboard, but was still having the same issue.  Thankfully I still had an old AM4 CPU kicking around, so I put that into the system and everything looks stable now.  Time to RMA my 18 month old 5700G CPU.  Part of my troubleshooting yesterday I replaced my USB, but that one seems to have issue dropping when starting the array (diagnostics attached).  I've tried multiple USB ports too.  I bought a new key, but now I'm getting an error that I've replaced my USB key twice over the past year and I can't update the key for the new USB key.  I opened a support case to hopefully allow me to update the key to either the new USB key or the original good USB that is now blacklisted.
homeserver-diagnostics-20240330-1248.zip

I was able to resolve the issue by going into the RetroNAS Config, going to settings and setting the password.  I reused the same password, but it looks like the samba service needs to have the password set after it's installed.