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ESXi 5 on evga e759

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Rody

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I have an e759 classified which I was going to bump into server mode after my last upgrade, I have a 9 TB all in one server right now but I wanted a bit more ram and cpu power to play with some more complex virtual "stuff" for lack of a better word. So I tried to load up esxi 5 on my e759 and it hangs at "relocating modules and starting up the kernel". I am running bios 82 at the moment, but I can change if some one has a good guess on a bios that will work, or even a hint at the secret bios setting that needs to be changed. Virtualization is enabled in the bios.

just for fun I just tried bios 83 and s22d and nether will load esxi 5. I have found one other post about evga x58 motherboards not able to run esxi 5 and they just purchased a gigabyte board and were happy...

I find it very interesting at this point that esxi will not load on this system. I have tried the same usb stick on every computer in my house, 3 775 machines an amd 939 box a sandy bridge box and a sandy bridge E, and the only machine that esxi will not load on is my X58 system. I have changed the video card tried without a video card added intel network cards and different storage controllers. In the big picture it does not matter that much. I have already decided to sell, but it sure is a puzzle.


system right now
EVGA e759 classified motherboard
i7 920
24gb ram
geforce 520
sandisk 8 gb usb flash drive.

pretty bare atm, glad i did not load it up and then find this problem.


thanks for any help
rody
 
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well I am not having any luck with this hardware so I am going to sell the Motherboard and processor and use the rest in a new build. I will probably get a nice super micro board and a quad-core xeon, I was just hoping to reuse some old hardware.
 
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