I can get into the raid config utility with the drives removed. I's ctrl C at this point. Which gets me into the configuration utility
Put the drives back in, I removed the activation key, F2 into bios, and I can see the drives in the bios.
It also shows them on the screen before system goes into intel boot agent. "searching for drives @ HBA 0" and it does list all 5. then it proceeds to the intel boot agent. of course it's hung at that point since there is no network boot available.
do these activation keys go bad?