Looks like we've made some progress.
I haven't passed any real traffic through it, but it's working.
Gonna stress it a bit to be sure it's stable then gonna reload it and put it in production.
I'll post back here as I make progress.

I chose this board as a COVID tinkering project.
It's got everything I was looking for.
Inexpensive, compact, quiet, runs pretty cool, dual NIC, NVMe, SATA, up to 32gb DDR4, x86 SBC.
And... I learned a little bit thanks to you guys
Gonna replace my old COS gateway / minecraft server.
Only down side so far is the 3 LEDs are extremely bright... so, not ideal in a bedroom... as my wife has pointed out.
Gonna have to get creative with the electrical tape to fix those LEDs.

Can't thank you guys enough.