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ESXi 5.1 will not boot after install

Hi all, I have to say I am totally new to all this, so please be patient with my problems and questions I may have Smiley Happy

Basically I have a home PC with a Gigabyte Motherboard using a AMD CPU x6 and 32Gb of DDR3 memory. The BIOS has Virtualisation option which is enabled but I cannot see anything about UEFI. So the issue is I have installed ESXi 5.1 using 'formatwithmbr' at the runweasle prompt.

The installation completes fine to the end (btw I have installed on a 240Gb SSD Sata drive), but when it reboots, ESXi goes into 'VMWare Hypervisor Recovery' mode and I get the following messages:

Bank 5: invalid configuration

Bank 6: not a VMware boot bank

Is it possible to install ESXi on this machine?

If yes, any possible solution to it?

Thanks in advance.

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