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If it comes up in recovery console and you did not install OS, just rebooted, and it has not come up in 10 min it's already 4-5 min late. If all drives were installed it will use the Watchdog to cycle through all of the drives, looking for one to boot/work.

I would not bother in wiping the HD's. It sounds like you have a serious hardware problem. I only do Quick Erase most of the time. The only reason to do a full is to condition and check the media. If I want to do some extensive testing on the HD I would use SpinRite.

Now with the network cable working as switch, have you used different cables and ports to confirm them good.

If I recall NiC port 2 is used if a static is assign to nic1. I had to use nic2 on mine when I first got it. After I reset it to pull a IP address from DHCP server, I have not looked back.

Have you removed your exp cards and reseat all hardware, ram, cpu, disconnect and reconnect to insure a good connection.

You may want to make arrangements for Andy to look at it.