Was looking to see if anyone had any insight to what I am experiencing.

 

A little back story...

I Purchased an Arc A310 (Sparkle Eco) with the intention of testing its transcode performance in Plex and Tdarr long story short I am looking to change my main server to the Threadripper 7000 platform and want to get that side of things figured out now. My backup server turns on 2 days a week to backup new files then powers off... nothing more. It has always been a 100% stable setup, never had to do anything to it other then plugin / docker / unraid updates if I want to. So I figured I can use my backup server for that purpose of testing and not mess with the main server.

 

i installed the card, booted up like normal and right away the A310 is showing up and ready to be used. installed a plex docker for testing and did so that night (last week) I shut it down and left the card in the chassis for now.

 

Fast forward to last night, automated bootup and then shutdown (informed via notifications) however I see via home assistant that the backup server is still pulling ~160w (normal full power) I log into KVM and see unraid was working on shutting down, but never did. Had to do a hard shutdown. Boot back up and it was an unusually long time before I can log in (5 min after it displays the ip + log in via command line) once I logged in the array take a substantial time to start as well. shutdown / reboot ends up with the same result of never actually completing the shutdown process. I updated to the latest version of unraid, no change. right away I noticed something new... in system devices, the iGPU on my processor shows up with 3 devices. never seen that before.

 

I removed the A310 and booted, 100% normal boot up time, operation and shutdown, however the iGPU still shows up as 3 devices. is this my issue?

Either way, install the A310... back to long bootup and array start and will not shut down normally.

 

I included the diag data... not sure what to do here. I know having the A310 installed causes my issues... however I know that should not be. I also know the iGPU should not show up as 3 devices either (my main server 13900K does not show the iGPU 3 times... just once.

 

Only thing I have not done is updated the Bios (if there is one) checking now and will update if there is one.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

rocket2-diagnostics-20250312-2028.zip

1 hour ago, KooKoo102 said:

I removed the A310 and booted, 100% normal boot up time, operation and shutdown, however the iGPU still shows up as 3 devices. is this my issue?

Either way, install the A310... back to long bootup and array start and will not shut down normally.

 

I included the diag data... not sure what to do here. I know having the A310 installed causes my issues... however I know that should not be. I also know the iGPU should not show up as 3 devices either (my main server 13900K does not show the iGPU 3 times... just once.

 

 

 

On who do we pin the responsibility for installing sr-iov? Raccons, ghost or aliens?^^

But thats not your issue. Although removing sr-iov might be worth giving a shot, since it brings it own drivers

Edited March 13, 20251 yr by Mainfrezzer

Well that was a silly rabbit hole...  went after updating the bios and then the computer would not POST.... solid black screen. removed the bios battery, RAM and Re-seated the HBA + 10GB NIC.... put all back in and boots fine and now I am back to 1 iGPU device listed. install the A310.. and everything is fine now. WTF. I have to assume something with the Bios update and re-seating everything was responsible.