I just purchased an ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 to upgrade my existing vSphere / ESXI free server. I am using two Intel XEON 2620 processors with 32gb of ram so far, probably going to max it out. Even though ESXi 5.1 is listed as tested on the ASRock and Newegg site, it will not boot. I can boot to Windows 2012 server, Debian and OpenSuse with the board, I tested all of them. I tried installing ESXi 5.1 to both a flash drive and hard drive and the install finishes fine. After reboot it hangs at the BIOS logo and there is an error code on the board. The error code will vary where I move the flash drive or hard drive, looking up the error it seems to be generic USB or Hard Drive boot errors. I know this board has the new UEFI bios and I have tried changing a bunch of settings hoping that is all that is was, since this is a server board you have to wait 5 ~ 10 minutes to test each new setting. Does anyone have any ideas?
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