Deadly Duck

I know this is some old gear but this is for a retroish game room I'm trying to get together. Really struggling with getting my Win10/XP dual boot machine up and running. Have a 2600k, ASUS P8Z77-V LK, and a Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Dual-X. No matter the settings I try to use in the UEFI I cannot get the motherboards BIOS to display through the 7970. The dream is to have a SSD with Win 10 installed and another one with XP installed and press F8 or whatever during boot to switch between them. Right now if I install Windows 10 using the iGPU and the motherboards onboard display port, shut down, switch to the 7970s output I can boot into Windows 10 without an issue, everything works great, still don't see the BIOS though. So I know the 7970 its self is not broken. I believe the issue is some sort of UEFI/legacy issue as my 7970 doesn't support UEFI. [/b]]. I've tried every possible combination of settings with no changes in BIOS display. Sometimes it will break my Win10 install depending on settings and I gotta reset the UEFI settings to get it back to working. I did try to flash UEFI modded BIOS to my 7970 which is a thing people did 10 years ago but all I did was brick one of the BIOS on my card, thankfully it has dual BIOS so the card still works but I can't get any display out of the 7970 when set on the flashed BIOS. I see people online running 7970s and 2 and 3rd gen core CPUs without issues. I've tried booting from a legacy boot USB stick with no other drive connected but that still doesn't show up on my 7970. It's only once the computer gets inside Windows does it have video out. I haven't tired to get XP running yet. I'm not sure what is holding me up here. I also can't help but feel like the Asus UEFI is lacking settings, for example I can't disable the iGPU at all and no setting flat out says "Legacy BIOS". I also flashed the mobo to the most up-to-date BIOS from the Asus website. I'd really like to stay with the 7970 for it's more feature rich XP drivers (GPU scaling and HDMI color settings), I can change the motherboard no issue if it's indeed a compatibility issue. Last resort is buying a GTX 960 which has UEFI support but doesn't have GPU scaling or HDMI color options under XP. Would really like to get up and running with what I have though. This is now multiple weeks of trouble shooting this and I can't even put into words how frustrating this is. If anyone could shine some light onto the issue i'd be forever grateful.

Yup, my FreeNAS is on two USB drives for the install with the whatever you call the restore file for FreeNAS saved in a few places. Had to replace both them thumb drives after about 2 years of up time before so it make sense. Maybe tomrrow if I have time I'm gonna try and get TrueNAS SCALE running on that SSD I got. I just really pray I don't hurt my data pools

Yes but, before I buy something for that would a USB 3.0 to sata adapter and a SSD work fine? I have that already laying around.

Thanks for the reply, TrueNAS Scale sounds like something i'd want to do since I had nothing but grief getting containers working on FreeNAS. Also, right now my boot media are 2 USB sticks. Seems like the website says SATA is best. I don't have any more free SATA ports on my Super Mirco mobo since all 10 SATA ports have hard drives in it. I'm assuming it's still ok to boot from USB, right? Is thier such a thing as a high endurance USB drive? And I do have my irreplaceable data backed up, family photos/videos, documents, that kinda stuff is all backed up on multiple different forms of media that are kept in different physical locations. I just also have like 50tb of data that, while replaceable would be a big pain in the ass and due to the size I don't have a great way of backing up. So I'd really like to keep it safe.

Just want to say upfront, I really don't understand how this NAS stuff works and just followed a guide to get my FreeNAS box up and running a few years ago. Currently running FreeNAS-11.2-U8 and would like to upgrade TrueNAS. What do I have to keep an eye on to make sure my data survives the update? I'm always hesitant to do anything like but do want to keep my things updated.

That won't work, my original is 6x6TB drives and the new one is 10x10tb drives and the SM mobo I used only has 10 sata ports. So yeah I'm full. Right now I'm using windows file transfer to move critical files over to the new NAS (Family vidoes, photos, stuff like that). After that it's mostly media in varies forms but that's the bulk of the 15tb of data. I'm thinking it's a motherboard issue on the original NAS because the 2 drives that failed are right next to one another as far as the sata controller goes and it's not even showing errors, drives show nothing, like they been unplugged. So either they are totally dead to the point they won't power on or the sata ports/PSU is having issues. Gonna wait to pull it apart till after the data is off it. Been wanting get that mobo out of service anyways because its a budget mobo that is pushing 10 years old at this point.

Have two home severs, first one I built with spare parts and a hope and a dream, the other I did with sever grade stuff. FreeNAS is reporting the old sever is in a degraded state and I wanna get my data off it onto the new one. It's like 15ishTB which I can fit on my other NAS. What is the easiest way to go about moving them files?

I still can't get it to work, I completely turned off Windows Firewall, opened the ports on my router's control panel. I'm so confused right now.

I opened all the ports but Diablo still won't connect

https://i.imgur.com/HrlHxV0.jpg Please help me, I can't figure out why I cant connect to Diablo 1 Battle.net. I've been trying to get this to work for days. I'm using a Verizon G3100 that comes with my service. I'm losing my mind. Can anyone help me?

I'll try and keep it brief, I built a NAS box like 2 years ago now. Used left over parts of dubious quality. It's a Pentium G4400 with 8gigs of ram with 6x 6tb drives running FreeNAS ZFS2 setup. Some of them drives have to be close to 10 years old and have been used and abused. I used them before with a hard drive dock, that's how I used to backup data, just swap hard drives in the dock and that slowly became a nightmare prompting me to build the NAS. So when I set this all up I planned it as a temporary solution to see if a NAS was right for me. Well that turned into me trusting this box with all my data for 2 years so yeah it works for me. So I got 10 x 10tb drives, a super micro mobo, a 8 core xeon and 32gigs of ECC ram. I install FreeNAS and get a network drive mapped on my desktop and laptop but some of the settings and options are really confusing me. Seems like FreeNAS is geared at someone who wants to do a lot more than I need. I really just want to set up network drives on my desktop and laptop and run a torrent program on it, maybe get to my files from the internet while i'm on the go. Should I stick with FreeNAS? is there a more noob friendly option that won't let me choose settings that are "bad ideas". Like now without me saving anytype of config files or anything if my USB drives fail (the ones with FreeNAS on them) will I be able to pop in two new drives, install FreeNAS and get to the files again?

I'm revamping my NAS. Right now i'm running a hodgepodge of left over computer parts and hard drives running FreeNAS. It's been running for almost 2 years without a issue but I know my hardware is gonna let me down. Right now i'm looking to rebuild my NAS with all new kit. Was looking at the X11SDV-4C-TLN2F, looks to fit all my needs at a reasonable price. I plan to run 6 hard drives in a Node 304 so this would work great. Right now i'm running a duel core Pentium and to be honest never really has any issues with not having enough power to do what I want to do so the X11SDV-4C-TLN2F should cover my needs. My question comes into PSUs for this mobo. It doesn't take standard ATX power supplies as far as I can tell so how do I get a power supply for this that will fit into the Node 304? Also while i'm asking, is there any other mobos/CPUs I should be checking out?

OK, a dab in each corner sounds good to me

So you think it's important to glue to back down, I really dont like the idea of it

What would the befits be of gluing it back down? I think you would want it to be easily removed in case you need to reapply