Replacing NIC Card on PFSENSE Box
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Hello,
I have a question and I would appreciate an answer or instructions.
Currently have a single port NIC on my PFSENSE install and I am using the onboard port on the machine as well.
So NIC port is LAN and onboard port is WAN.
On the LAN I also have two VLANS.
I got a 4 port Intel i350 card and I want to install this one and remove the single port one.
I have backups of all my settings, firewall rules, VLANS, and everything.
My plan was to install the new NIC and just auto detect and assign the interfaces but now I have the following issue:
I removed the existing single port NIC card and I installed the "new" one four port. When I turned the machine on, no BIOs, no post. Then the fan gets super loud and it stays like that until I manually have to turn it off.When I install the old NIC card back, everything is good, I am able to get into the BIOS and PFSENSE boots without any issues.
So I installed the card into a spare machine I have laying around and installed a fresh copy of PFSENSE. No issues, it detected the four port network card without any problems. I am able to see the four IGB with their respective MAC addresses.
Could there be an incompatibility with this network and the machine I am using as a router? These are the specs for that machine:
HP Compaq 6200 Pro
Running the latest firmware, J01 v2.33 - April 12 2019.
CPU - Intel i7-2600 and 8 Gigs of RAM.
500 Gig Hard drive.Any advice is really appreciated.
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strange, I immediately thought the card was broken, but it work on another machine. there is only one 16x pcie slot on that motherboard afaik. maybe check/clean the golden pin of the pcie slot
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Insufficient power to the slot? Incompatible PCIe version?
It's clearly something very low level if it prevents it powering on entirely. Might not be anything you can do there.
Steve
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@kiokoman thanks very much, I will try to clean that and try again.
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@stephenw10 - Thanks for the reply, the machine turns on, I just don't get video or BIOS or anything. Are there any diagnostics I could check for?
Apologies if this is a dumb question but if I get another machine, install a fresh copy of PFSENSE, can I restore the backups I have for this one? -
Yes, you can restore backups into another machine. You might have to re-assign the interfaces if they are using different drivers.
Steve
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Just throwing this out there. Maybe some low level resource conflict. Try going into BIOS and disabling any ports, etc., you don't need, including the onboard NIC.
