Hello,
I am starting this discussion hoping that somebody else might attempt to install ESXi on a system with the same configuration as mine, and run into the same problems as me.
During the installation of ESXI, I am getting this error message which I am not sure how to interpret. 
I found another discussion here where the installation succeeded after disabling AHCI or USB 3.0 support in the BIOS configuration, however the motherboard in use on that system
was an ASROCK Taichi X399.
If somebody could make any suggestions on how to resolve the installation issue, I would greatly appreciate it.