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roger. done. thank you guys for your help!

so I found a setting called sata ide combined mode in bios. I turned it off and I think it fixed that issue. I think that was the missing setting. a good note is after I changed my xmp profile on my ram, my ram passed for 10 runs. I then changed the ide sata setting. I can thankfully say that my parity has run a full check now with no hangup. thank you so much guys. I was pulling my hair out

oh crap. ill change that once memtest is complete edit. weird. everything in bios is set to ahci. nothing is set to ide at all.

mate. is it possible to hug you over the internet. Because within like 15 mins i started failing memtest all over the place. I suspect it was my xmp profile so i have since disabled it and am running memtest again. So far no fails. but ill continue to run it overnight. god why didn't i think of this.

no i haven't. never really thought to because ive used the hardware for years without issue. i will run a memtest and report back. how long should i run it for?

hey thank you so much for the quick response! here is my zip tower-diagnostics-20181220-1439.zip

I'll start with current specs fx8350 asrock 990fx extreme 9 16gb ddr3 1600 ram 6 8tb wd red nas drives 2 60gb drevo ssd 1000w evga gold psu I cannot get unraid to work. What i mean by that is I start the array, it starts a parity check, and then it freezes at random percentages. I have precleared all disks like 3 times now between each attempt which takes me like 3 days to do. I have tried adding one parity drive and one data drive and it freezes. I have tried a different data drive and parity drive. it freezes. I have blown through half of my trial and havent even stored one thing on my server yet. Every smart test i run on the drives pass every time ive ran preclear they have passed with a clean bill of health I have tried different drives with the same outcome I am so frustrated I am about to give up on the whole thing. Please help. what do you need from me?