chunkynutella

looks like I'm settling for DS3615xs 1.02b and DSM 6.1.7 no other combo's work, did try 6.2.3 upgrade from 6.1.7 with the same loader but that of course didn't work, booted and was on the network but it didn't recognize the installed DSM Since the NIC is intel and the i7 3rd gen in there should be fine with the DS3615xs I'm a bit stuck on what could be going wrong, starting to look at what could be wrong with drivers

I'm embarking on this journey too, an i7 8300's come into my possession and i'm just tried this and failed almost immediately. originally tried a 1.04b flash drive from a working xpenology machine but got some weird graphical issue on boot, looked as if the 2 screens after boot merged into 1 and they were off to the right and slightly down, about a third off the screen. notingly I get a failure on trying to boot the drive on legacy so this was only visible using UEFI after some troubleshooting I ended up resetting the bios using the below CMOS Battery out > press CMOS clear button on motherboard > reinsert CMOS battery now it looks fine graphicly (still only able to boot from UEFI) but I still don't see the machine on the network after boot I also just tried resorting to installing OpenMediaVault temporarily but that flash drive also doesn't boot correctly. Currently weighing up upgrading the bios to the latest (3.08 rev a from the looks of the HP support site) version but am unsure if this will fix my issues. also some people are talking about a hidden USB Legacy boot option in the BIOS so will also give that a go