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HP N54L - found twice, never again

HP N54L - found twice, never again

Hello!   I have an issue that is making me bald at the moment...   First of all, my config and procedure:   HP N54L with modded bios (worked great with FreeNAS for a year) Using only onboard LAN Jun's Loader v1.03b (model DS3615xs) 5 SATA harddrives plugged in   I followed the excellent guide by Polanskiman, created the bootable USB stick and booted up the HP box. Synology Assistant found the unit, and I applied the DSM patch file DSM_DS3615
My N54L runs 6.1.7 with the 1.02b loader. My understanding that 6.2 does not have support for the onboard nic and so people are buying and installing network cards with the intel chipset to make the later version work. I have looked at my install notes and see that I disabled C1E in the bios (I am running a "stock" bios but that shouldn't matter) and I can't see whether I used the mac address provided in the loader or whether I used one that matched the serial number I have. So I would