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

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 19:58:33 EDT 2017


Hmm...still working on a good flash image. Even following the directions 
doesn't help. Bios is about 13 versions behind the newest, which is 
still pretty old.

Of course the missing disk problem was solved by putting another disk in.

On 07/13/17 14:59, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 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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