Hi guys,
I have been scratching my head for the last couple of hours on this one.
I just want to upgrade my well running Q9550 ESXi with some new hardware, because i needed more RAM (old setup only supports 8GB)
So i got the following with the mail today:
MB: MSI Z87-G43
CPU: I5-4670K
RAM: Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 8GB * 2
i took the old MB, CPU and RAM out of the server, og put the new in. then i put in a freshly downloaded (4 hours ago, to make sure i had the latest) ESXI 5.1 CD and bootet it up.
I starts out fine, loading the drivers and so on, but then it hangs at "Initializing IOV ...." with a yellow/gray background.
I googled this, and found out it had something to do with the VT-X/VT-D so i went to the BIOS to see if it was enabled - It was.
I tried disabling it, just to see if that made any difference, but sadly no.
The motherboard and CPU both support VT-X/VT-D.
I have made the standard testing with memtest, to make sure the RAM was not dead on arrival (This has happened a lot to me, so i always test them) so the hardware is working.
I also tried booting the old installation from when the old motherboard was installed, just to see if i got any other errors, and it hangs at the same message.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Thanks for reading, i hope some of you can help me!
I have attached a picture of the "initializing IOV ...." screen where it hangs.