Thank you for your reply. No OC. It's all on default on BIOS. I did a reset CMOS just in case. Same problem happens.No, sorry, I can't help further. Perhaps someone else can.
Well, except if you are using any over-clocking, disable it. Servers run better as stock parts.
Looking into this there are a few hardware things that will probably cause a few issues (though they are easily rectified by adding two inexpensive cards, an LSI HBA and a better network card):
ASUS M5A78L-M Motherboard
Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s connectors (7-pin SATA3G_1~6)
These connectors connect to Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s hard disk drives via Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s signal cables. If you install Serial ATA hard disk drives, you can create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD configuration through the onboard controller.
What's all the noise about HBAs, and why can't I use a RAID controller?
1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with, a server. RAID controllers typically aggregate several disks into a Virtual Disk abstraction of some sort...www.truenas.com
Realtek 8111H Gigabit LAN Controller
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Is my Realtek ethernet really that bad?
This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. One of the longest running issues faced here in the forums may be people who come to these forums, wanting to recycle an old PC into a NAS...www.truenas.com
Thanks for answering. 1) Could you please elaborate why you think those would help? I'd like to be certain before I spend money on those. I mean, the network adapter for example, how would it help if I don't even get the chance to use my network at all? If you watch the video closely, pausing to read stuff just before it crashes and reset, it seems to bug while mounting my pool. Why would getting a new network card help?
2) Also, I tried booting with all HDDs unplugged, with only the SSD with the OS in it running. It worked. I managed to boot and could connect to truenas through the web interface. Is this behavior expected? Does it indicate what could be going wrong? I tried unplugging HDDs one by one (supposedly one could break and my system would still run because of raid redundancy), but with only 4 out of 5 HDDs plugged in, no matter which 4, the bootloop happened again.
3) Couldn't I fresh install TrueNAS on my SSD and then try to remount my pool?
Reposting video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMAawOgh2I