Thanks for the warning Tilt

BTW, do you know of any board where one can disable pci slot scanning?

(last effort before I RMA the 9260 that hangs)

quote from LSI
If these steps were not followed and the MegaRAID controller hangs at power-on, try the following steps to attempt to recover the MegaRAID controller:

1. Remove the MegaRAID controller from the system
2. Disable the PCI slot scan in system BIOS
3. Insert the MegaRAID controller into the slot where the PCI slot scan was disabled and boot to DOS
4. Use "MegaCli -adpm0flash -f mr2108fw.rom" to reflash this firmware image (Mode 0 flash MUST be done in DOS)
5. Reboot the system to either the OS or DOS
5. Use "MegaCli -adpfwflash -f <older fw file name> -noverchk -a0" to flash the older firmware version
6. Use "MegaCLI -facdefset -a0" to load the factory defaults
7. Reboot the system and the MegaRAID controller should be recovered