June 17, 20224 yr Author 7 hours ago, JorgeB said: I would suggest re-creating the flash drive, or just trying with a new trial one just to see if it boots and if that is the problem. I tried that and even tried a new flash drive and still the same thing happens.
June 17, 20224 yr Author Solution Ok I pulled all 3 of my LSI cards and tried booting it up again and it loaded to UnRaid. I then added 1 card at a time, powering off between of course. UnRaid loaded each time. So weird that it wasn't working before until I re-added one by one. thanks for your help.
June 21, 20224 yr This rings a bell. Three identical HBA cards. Each card works fine on it's own, possible any combination of two do too, but when you install all three the system fails to boot. Something about conflicting address space for their BIOS ROMs - solution is to flash them with IT firmware only and if you need the BIOS then only flash it to one of them. The other possiblity is SMBus conflict - solution is to insulate two of the PCIe edge connector contacts (pins 5 and 6, maybe?) with Kapton tape. Sorry this is a bit vague but I don't have time to research it right now but it might jog someone's memory or gve you enough information to do a search.
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