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Flyride - nailed it!!! now running DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 3 All that needed to be done is change the exta.lzma file from the link you sent below Now, being greedy, I'm v0.11 of teh LZMA. I understand there are much newer versions - like 0.6 or even 0.7 Would you be able to advise on that for the 3615xs

Hi Flyride, Thank you for responding - Don't have Legacy / Legacy with CSM / UEFI (like my HP Laptop does for example) I only have Legacy and UEFI - both modes have Sandisk Ultra Fit 16gb for 1st boot device and Samsung HDD for 2nd (this is again identical to 3020) Tried both - all that changes is the text goes smaller and sharper with UEFI, and bigger good-old-dos days kind of text in Legacy. Else the boot menu and the text following is all identical - Legacy / UEFI. "You might need extra.lzma for the NIC but the only way to tell is to load it or run down the PCI ID of the embedded card." - instructions or links on extra.lzma, versions and steps would be appreciated. - happy to get PCI ID of either cards, but what do you do there?

hi DFDS, 6.3? I doubt that works with Jun's 1.03b? It's the same - I should have specified better: Dell 3020 (tried last week) - I start by loading the 6.2.3-23739 and then moved upto 25426. - Further, tried DSM 6.2.4-25554, but that failed so moved back to 6.2.3.25426. And yes, Different Serial Numbers and MAC Addresses too. No Joy...

Hi, I just bought an Optiplex 9020 MT off Ebay, to replicate my 3020, and encounter/ed the following issues: - Prepared custom Bootloader - PID, VID, MAC & Srl. I would get nothing on pings on power-on - I figured it was the 1217LM Card. Ordered myself a D-Link 928 PCI Card and that works great. - I formatted the Samsung 256GB SSD and loaded the 1.03b Bootloader on to Sandisk Ultra Fit 16GB. - On boot, I see Happy Hacking on the monitor, and I can see diskstation on the IP Scanner & on IP webpage. - I proceed to load "DSM_DS3615xs_23739.pat" - and it starts the 10 minutes countdown timer on webpage. - 60% or so onto the progress bar circle, the pings change from replies to "request timed out" & "destination unreachable". - From there on, it goes nowhere. Reboot doesnt help - get the happy hacking screen but no responses. - have also tried - changing from UEFI to MBR. And changed onboard raid to AHCI - no change In contrast, I've been running a Dell 3020 Optiplex MT - and that works great - is DSM_DS3615xs_25426. - also has an inatec 4x USB 3.0 Ports - has 2x syba 9215 Sata controllers (Sata controllers not changed to 41) - Runs 2x 8TB-3.5, 2x 2TB-3.5, 2x 500GB-2.5, 2x 512GB SSD's - - Boots off Juns 1.03B on a Sandisk Ultra Fit 16GB & 1x Intel 180GB as Base / Boot Drive. Plan to add the 9020 as new primary since: - 16GB Ram & i5 would give me a better Win10 VM Performance. - Too many drives on the 3020 MT with just 290w PSU. As you can tell, I'm not quite a NOOB but unable to figure where the issue is during installation. PS: I also have a TP-Link PCIe NIC if its still a NIC issue. Pls advise.