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Thanks

Thank you for a nice guide, I followed it, and was able to install esxi on my Asus Crosshair motherboard. I am using the internal NIC´s and SATA controller. I used your oem.tgz file for both the install disc and the dd image file.

I have one problem. When a guest os comes under very heavy load (i use it for bittorrent on a 100mbit connection) it looses connection to the datastore, and I have to reboot the host to get the datastore back. It happens after approx 20 min of heavy load. I tried with XP, Ubuntu and Red Hat, so I think it might be a hardware problem. When the guest os is not under load, I dont seem to have any problems at all.

I was wondering if you have experienced something similar with the Asus Crosshair motherboard.

Do you set any special bios settings to make it work ? I have updated the bios to the newest version, but no change, heavy load disconnects the datastore after a while.

Do you have any idea what the problem might be ?

Thanks in advance

Jaev

Thanks everyone.