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Thanks @Tex1954
Interestingly, on reboot the Power Status for the two “unknown drives” (cant remember which brand probably Seagate) is showing active Idle, when the Rockon service is initiated the staus changes to Unknown, and as you have suggested, switching the smart feature off then on again returns the status to active idle.

Also
The caterpillar marching accross the dashboard screen is no longer present and the blue twinkling “buffering” indicator is no longer buffering.
However the rockons still don’t function.
Finally
When attempting to initialise the Rockon service again, the caterpillar returns and the rotating blue buffering indicator stays on.
Switching the smart service a second time doesn’t reset the second time.

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Would it be the better approach to try a reinstall just to remove any possible errors incurred during the last update?

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That might be the best option for now, I suspect.

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Thanks @Hooverdan
Looks like @Tex1954 was right, on attempting a full reinstall with just the os drive connected no output to the monitor was achieved hence running blind, if the mb has failed on the video circuits where else has it fallen down, plus confidence has now been lost and the search for a new rig has arisen.
Thanks to yourself and @Tex1954 for all your help.

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If you reside somewhere in North America, I could send you something I am sure you would like!

:sunglasses:

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Thanks @Tex1954
Unfortunately (for your assistance) I am from the white chalk of Dover accross the “pond” but thanks anyway.
Have you had any experience with Raspberry Pi4 set ups, are they capable of running server services such as Jellyfin for instance?

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Hmm, never messed with Pi or ITX or tiny stuff… just power stuff that does the job. If you are in the UK and can cover the VAT on a (a hmm) OLD USED Supermicro uATX board with 32G ECC and 1245-V3 CPU and new heatsink, then shipping would be maybe $65 USD give or take. I don’t know what your total cost would be with all the other things involved though. Maybe we could find someone flying from the US to UK to bring it to you. Or I suppose you could find stuff local for far cheaper… I also have other free fully populated uATX boards that do not support ECC that could do the job.

Anyways, Good Luck getting things up and running!

:sunglasses:

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Thanks @Tex1954
I appreciate your offer, will have a good look around the UK, (ebay and the like).
Cheers for now.

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Many thanks for help and encouragement so far.
Question
Does the operating system automatically install a graphics card (on initial set up) or is the graphics card installation done with screen commands.
(AMD Radeon R7 450 4Gb GDDR5 PCIe 3x16)
Thanks

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Regarding Pi4 being powerful enough to run rockstor and services (rockons): yes, but it depends on how resource intensive services you plan on running.

Jellyfin will work, until transcoding is used. Also, since you mentioned an AMD graphics card, I should warn you that the Jellyfin creators advise against using AMD graphics card to accelerate. If you will use only CPU for transcoding, or if you won’t use transcoding, then you are fine.

I imagine that basic graphics capabilities will work out of the box, but I don’t have experience with PCIE cards in Linux.

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Thanks @aremiaskfa
Very useful intel, thanks.
It seems I have all the wrong components:
A motherboard that seems to have failed.
A CPU that has no iGPU.
And to compensate a graphics card that Jellyfin doesn’t like or has difficulty functioning with.
Looks as if some new (to me) kit is needed :thinking: :tired_face:
Thanks again

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