PCIe Intel NIC not loading on initial power up.

[IQless]

Good morning.

I'm having a peculiar problem with my backup box.
The box is an old consumer grade crap box with a built-in Realtech nic. I added a Dual Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet because I don't trust the Realtech one.
AND here comes the problems... for some reason, the Intel NIC will not show after the initial power-on of the system, only after I do a reboot will the intel be loaded.
This would not be a problem for me if this system would be online 24/7, but I only power this on for a few hours each week for the ZFS replication to do its work.

Anyone got any idea on why this is happening?

Hardware:
Version: FreeNAS-11.1-U5
MB: ASUS P7P55D-E, Socket-1156
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-860 Quad 2.8GHz
RAM: 16GB (4x Kingston ValueR. DDR3 1333MHz 4GB)
NIC: Dual Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet
Case: Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Black
PSU: Silver Power SP-SS850 850W PSU
HDD Dock: ICY BOX IB-555SSK 5Bay Backplane
Boot: Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 500GB 2,5" Laptop HDD
Pool: RaidZ1 (4x 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14, 1x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5)

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to figure out what is causing this?

 

[IQless]

Sadly no, I'm thinking it has to have something to do with the configuration in BIOS. I was sure I had checked everything, but I guess not.
At the moment I'm on holiday, but I will take another look at it when I get back home.