pahowells

Edit: Created the USB flash drive (for the 4th time) using Rufus instead of Win32DiskImager and it is now working - update is busy installing

I have been using DSM 5.2 on an HP Microserver Gen 8 for the last 4 years without a problem, but now need to upgrade as my Plex client cannot connect to older Plex server which cannot be upgraded because DSM is too old. I tried the tutorial to upgrade DSM to 6.1.7 and for the life of me cannot get it loaded: The system is booting from the USB drive so I assume that the VID and PID numbers I used are correct. When it reaches the boot menu it automatically goes into the first option which is to Install DSM. I then get the message "Booting the kernel" and then nothing? The lights on the LAN port are flashing so I assume that it is communicating on the LAN (LAN drivers are all good?), but I cannot detect the system on the network - Synology assistant does not find it and my IP scanner does not detect it on the network. I have tried a few times (even tried upgrading to DSM 6.0.2 but same problem exists. I also tried loading the extra drivers in the "extra.lzma" file but still no change. Does anyone have any suggestions for me on what to look for or what I can try? I have seen posts where people are running on a Gen 8 microserver so this should work. PS: I am using "DS3615xs 6.1 Jun's Mod V1.02b.img" and have the "DSM_DS3615xs_15284.pat" file to use (but haven't got that far in the installation).