[ale] Override Dell Optiplex 980 "Missing drive" on POST?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 14:59:13 EDT 2017


reflash the bios
Move the connection for the drive around. Use a single drive. It may
have a dead sata port or two.
On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 14:22 -0400, Leam Hall wrote:
> Picked up a good deal at Goodwill. Issue I'm having is that there's
> only 
> one drive in the RAID array and the machine won't boot unless I
> press 
> "F1" to continue. Once I do that it's fine.
> 
> Trying to figure out how to get around this. Ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Leam
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