I am setting up a new system using a gigabit GA-970A-DS3P motherboard. I have setup the flash drive per the instructions and tried several drives. For some reason I am unable to connect to the computer via webpage. I have also tried this with installing several other network cards one was Realtech and the other is an Intel card. I am getting link lights but getting no connection. Any help is needed.

 

Thanks

Also I have tried other cables.

Do you have a monitor and keyboard attached?

I do currently for the setup. I plan on disconnecting these once setup is complete.

Added note... I have not issue with any of these network cards using Windows. Not sure if this information helps or not. If I recall during the boot up is says something about waiting for link and says something about waiting a number seconds.

What do you get from these commands?

ethtool eth0

ifconfig

I was going to try and add pictures but they are too big. I am not sure what I am looking for here.

 

Link detected: yes

 

eth0: flags=4163 up,broadcast, running ,multicast mtu 1500

ether fc: aa:14:9c:66:74 txqueuelen 1000 ethernet

type

diagnostics

This will save a diagnostics zip file to your flash. Then

powerdown

and put your flash in your PC and post the diagnostics.

I was going to try this and now when it boots it gives me a message that it is missing the operating system. I will have to try this again later with setting up the flash drive again. I am at a loss with this. I tried this on a lower end computer I have in the house and it worked without issue but I wanted to use this much faster machine so I can take advantage of all options.

 

Thanks for your help.

I was going to try this and now when it boots it gives me a message that it is missing the operating system. I will have to try this again later with setting up the flash drive again. I am at a loss with this. I tried this on a lower end computer I have in the house and it worked without issue but I wanted to use this much faster machine so I can take advantage of all options.

 

Thanks for your help.

Possibly your BIOS is trying to boot from something other than the flash drive.

I gave up on this for a bit but wanting to try getting this going once again as I am tired of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. I get everything to boot as it should and everything seems to be moving along as it should until it gets to the network card. It shows it is waiting for a carrier. What I have done is I know that Realtek cards are frowned upon. This has a Realtek card bul in to the motherboard. To resolve this I have added in an Intel PCIE add in card. During the boot up it does not seem to want to detect this card or still unable to get a carrier. Please help with this issue. I would like to use your product if I can get past this hurdle.

 

Thanks

 

ifconfig eth0 (insertIP) netmask 255.255.255.0

eth0 being your first card

eth1 being your second card

 

will force an ip address on your network card opposed to dhcp once you hit command line.

 

ifconfig -a

should give you a listing of all your installed/recognized interfaces.

 

Are you running any other unRAID machines in the house or just that one?

 

This is a decent website talking about ifconfig too.

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uifconfi.htm

 

You could try and use your Realtek and see what it does. My Motherboard seems to be ok in my BioStar board.

As well does it give you the option to disable your NIC in your BIOS?

 

 

Don't give up yet. I'm sure its something silly or just not staring you in the face.

I do not currently have another Unraid box. If I can get this to work I will have two upon completion. I have two sets of identical hardware to get working with Unraid. While watching the computer boot up on the flash drive it always shows eth0 no carrier. This I believe is the Realtek card. To ignore this card knowing it wont work with Unraid I only plug in the Intel card expecting it to be eth1 I would suspect. Do I need to keep both network cards plugged in to the switch? I have tried just the Realtek card in the past and had the same response that is why I purchased the Intel cards.

when you run ifconfig -a do both cards show up? Or just the Realtek?

I am at work and not in front of the computer. I will try this in a few hours when I get in front of it.

 

Thanks for your help with this.

 

Disable the motherboard ethernet in the BIOS.

Disabling the motherboard ethernet worked. Thanks