I am totally messed up here. I spent a few 100 Euros now in order to get me a decent box for Sophos (and maybe later some VMs on the same machine, this is why it's a bit overpowered) and what I have no is nothing [:(]
I bought :
ASUS H97M-PLUS mainboard
core i5-4460
8GB DDR3 Ram
The board has a intel I218V on board and so I got another NIC card from Intel (Intel
Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter with PCIe X1), Controller 82574L.So I put the box together, updated to the last bios, also updated the firmware of a corsair ForceGT 120 and gave it a go.
But I never get past "Detecting other devices", the system always freezes there. And I tried a lot until now. I deactivated all the not used SATA Ports, the Audio controller, the not used USB controllers, nothing of these worked out.
I can see on screen (see sreenshot) that it sees the CPUs, then the disks, the SanDisk Cruzer is my install USB-stick, then it detects both NICs and then... Game over...
I tried it with asg-9.209-8.1.iso and with asg-9.113-1.1.iso . I have the same behaviour in both installations. I am really broken-hearted at the moment as I thought this would be a pretty decent box and now I have these big problems.
I also saved all the logs of the last run to the USB-stick (which creates install.zip with all the relevant logfiles then), so if this helps i can post them or excerpts of then because some of them are pretty long.
I would be really lucky if someone could help me out of this.
P.S: I decided to give pfSense a try now but this is not even recognizing the internal NIC (Intel 218V) at all, so also doesn't work at all. What a sh..., hope someone has a hint because I don't know what to do with this box...
Cheers,
Tee
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