Thanks guys so much for your help ... and Happy New Year.

So I tried Gen1, Gen2, Gen3, and then Auto and nothing.

I also tried the instructions mentioned in the mining manual.  After enabling everything the rig won't boot and the VGA onboard chip is giving me a multicolored random pixels screen (i.e. a lot of garbage).

Do you think it could be because I am running SMOS from a USB thumb drive?  Is there any other OS I should try?