Where did i go wrong

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Dont know how to insert a photo but when booting up i got the error (dont know how to fix it either)

Expansion ROM not initialized

  • PCI Mass Storage Controller on Motherboard
    Bus: 05. Device: 00, Function: 00

So going into the bios i found a few issues;
i had 2 too many ram sticks dropping it to 600mhz (have the f9 bios, read i might need the f8, removing 2 sticks was easier … so i did it)

   Had the lsi sas plugs from mobo to card in plugs 2 and 3 instead of 8 and 9 
 Sas card has 3 2tb hdd

While the 6 sata cables on the mobo have 500gb ssd 3 8tb hdd and 2 disc drives

After fixing all that i got the blue screen of death with windows and figured well lets start here fix this error, then work on the OS and inaccessible boot device ( my fix load ubuntu on another hdd erase the ssd with windows and start over with windows)

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Drag and drop the file into the compose box

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Unfortunately i am on a phone as my computer is dead

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Already tried resetting bios to factory defaults and then seeing boot order only?

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This is out if order

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Ok so after various attempts at fixing windows 10, i decided to load uduntu back on. Inserted usb boot to usb loaded ubuntu server not sure where it loaded to as i walked away and came back to this screen

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After that turned it off and back on windows loaded perfectly fine so obviously ubuntu didnt go to the 500gb ssd, and i can see the 3 8tb hdd but i dont see any of the 2 yb so my concern is not i overwrote the lsi sas controller

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Wait, are you saying that Ubuntu installed itself without any input from you?

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Used yumi and selected install to first hard drive

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and didn’t check which disk it was? you can boot up ubuntu as a live disk and see what the partition tables for the connected devices look like.

fdisk -l should get you started

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Sorry for the delayed response, I was just being dumb, forgot when i reset the bios it turned off the lsi sas controller, only noticed it when i went to turn on the other two ethernet ports.

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So we’re all good then?

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Yes sir, thank you all for your help