I’m making this post short to note this odd experience with this host build.<\/p>\n
First weird thing was when trying to install ESXi I couldn’t get past vmkusb not sure what it was about but only found this decent reddit post<\/a> with the same problem.<\/p>\n In short he noticed it would only get past this if a second USB was plugged into the USB2 ports, and sure enough that worked for me too. strange….<\/p>\n Then a couple days later while doing some more test boots, I get a Purple screen of death, complaining about the PCPU1 not starting or some shit, ugh again lets see what others have to say… well I found this vmware thread<\/a> on it, he basically stated that resetting the BIOS settings worked, after farting around with some bios settings, I had other failed boots and my CPU and system was rather hot. I let everything cool down, added more powerful fans and tried again after resetting the BIOS to factory and much like the post it worked.<\/p>\n After finalizing the build a little more, I switched to an old 2.5″ HDD.. same problem but I noticed it gets stuck on initializing scheduler before PSODing, while I searched for what might be up with that I found this<\/a>…<\/p>\n It did help shit, same problem next boot, instead of just resetting the BIOS I played around with a couple more settings like I enabled intel AES-NI which helps for CPU offloading of AES computations. and another one which I sadly forgot, and then my next boot was fine. saving this at this point in case it comes back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m making this post short to note this odd experience with this host build. First weird thing was when trying to install ESXi I couldn’t get past vmkusb not sure what it was about but only found this decent reddit post with the same problem. In short he noticed it would only get past this … <\/p>\n