Well… This post sent me down a rabbit hole -> Unequal Hours if anyone else is curious.

It does, I’ve reflashed the bios a few times and rolled back to 4 different versions. No luck.

I thought of this, but I’m frozen on the bios splash screen with or without USB peripherals plugged in.

I get error 98 in boot with any USB device plugged in, which I think means USB init starts, but hangs during enumeration.

If i remove all usb devices it hangs on at D7, which i think means that USB init completes, no input found.

The fact that it’s not moving past BIOS splash screen is concerning and leads me to think this won’t be a viable solution. I’d imagine that the board will still try onboard USB first and hang before they ever reach the PCIe card. I did some other troubleshooting, at this point I’ve accepted that the board is toast.

Are there tutorials on how to do this? Should it be set up on a server on my local network??? How hard is it to set up? I have so many questions.