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2 points 1rst, M1115 is not just a newer version of M1015, its a full on Raid card and has a battery option and as such might be a better option for Raid 5. 2nd, the wierd video artifacts mentioned above also happened to me. This board is a DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR. I had a cross flashed M1015 in x16 slot #2 (works great there) I put in a PCI graphic card to free up x16 slot #1 (GPU slot) for another M1015. Machine would not boot past second cross flashed M1015 card in x16 slot and presented the same screen mentioned above. Food for thought, Going to try pin taping to see if that fixes issue. If so, cool, I load freeNas :-)

Yipes! Cross flashed my M1015 this morning with downloaded files from first post on this forum using USB DOS. Bats 1-6 Now the card shows up in MB post (As LSI 9211-8i), can get into lsi config util using ctrl + c, util is usable, exit then, post may or may not move onto an on board (nVidia) raid controller that then attempts to "detect array" which does not exist and of course never configured in that way. System will not progress past any of this unless I remove M1015 MB= DFI-nF4-Landparty SLI-DR onboard nVida ans Sil image Raid controllers not configured for raid, PCI Zotac vid card, Athlon dual core CPU, 8 Gb OCZ memory (4 dims), Sil Image 2114 and 2112 PCI raid cards, Vertex4 SSD onboard nics etc it all works without the crossflashed M1015 This board also has had another cross flashed M1015 which worked flawlessly for years. I pulled this one prior to cross flashing new card Prior to cross flashing this new card I had it installed in a brand new Asrock Z97 Extreme9 board, not sure don't remember but don't think it would allow boot to progress past M1015 Bios then either but had a 10gb nic installed with its own bios and it wanted to PXE boot so don't know which card was hosing boot order. Took them both out and boot city! So perhaps card hosed prior to flash don't know however I had to get past this card to boot into USB DOS and run SAS2FLSH I get the following from the config util. Boot disabled (boot order 0) MPT Firmware revision 11.00.00.00-it NVDAT Version 0a.03.00.04 Chip Revision ID V7.21.00.06 (2011.08.11) What next any pointers on how to get past 9211 post? Perhaps try a reflash or do I have a brick on my hands?