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You may try to follow this walk-through if anyting else fails (but first disable C1E).

1 important step you must do: disable the C1E option, under the Advanced CPU settings, in the BIOS, else the internal NIC will not work.

So.... Any info on this related to DSM, and usage, or just a random "dropping off pic's" post?

Oh... as I said, it all depends on the usecase. On one of my "boxes", running RAID10 as a NFS fileshare for my ESXi host, and iSCSI target for its VM's, adding a SSD readcache made a BIG difference. But, if your just using it for your mediaserver, its a waste. If you have personal experience with this kind of use, positive or negative, feel free to share

That might be some of the reasons why he wants to build a Xpenology box @SrBas97 Your DSM will automaticly be installed on your "data disks", as a Raid1 mirrored across "all" of them. The drives will get 3 separate partitions during install: 1=System (for DSM), 2=Swap, 3=Data storage, and you do not need to think about it. If you have a singe SSD, you *can* use it for cache, but just as "read-cache", and depending of usage pattern, it might be un-useful.

Just in case other people are looking for a modded BIOS, this BIOS works on N36L/N40L/N54L. I have used it on all my microserver Gen7 builds. Info can be found here: https://www.avforums.com/threads/hp-n36l-n40l-n54l-microserver-updated-ahci-bios-support.1521657/ TheBay_Microserver_Bios_041.rar

One of the first thing I tried, but as the NAS and the PC are on totally different IP ranges, Synology Assistent is finding nothing. I might find the time to install an extra NIC (Intel) and get that going with DHCP

So, some years ago I helped a friend to install DSM 6.x on a HP N54L Microserver, based on Jun's 1.0x bootloader, and I left it running with DHCP based IP for the ease of moving it between my and his "homelabs". Down the road, he was giving it a fixed IP, outside his local DHCP scope, all OK. But, when moving to a different location it was stored for a while. New location, new ISP and new router with a different IP range, now its getting complicated... When it was time to hook it up, no connection (naturally). And the tricky part is, he has totally forgotten both the IP and the IP range he used to have. The question: How can we find, and connect to the HP so the old fixed IP can be changed to reflect his new IP range?

Could you post some screenshots from "Storage Manager" ? (RAID Group)

Actually, I qouted it Yes, due to how the system enumerates the nic's during boot the external will allways become eth0, but is/was that really a "problem" ? btw: how is the "real-life" experience with DSM 7 and redpill, compared to your old setup?

A late reply, so I guess you found this out, using this: set mac1=68... set mac2=38... will let you use both NIC's with their original MAC

SATA or NVMe (.M2)?

JBM585 based controllers, has been used by many of the users. But, I do spot a "minor" problem ... The SATA controller is "B-Key", and the extension you link to, is "M-Key". What "Key" do you have on your mainboad? Edit: on closer look, the "minor" problem should not be a problem btw: are you using the "Oculink", and if so was it easy to get going with XPE?

And can you *verify* that the IP adress is handed out to the correct mac adress (the one in your grub.cfg file) and that no other devices on your net is using that mac or IP? Are you using the real mac, or a spoofed mac in grub.cfg?

What services are you running on your NAS? Have you *disabled* any UPNp services on your router ?