Area-51 R5 BIOS Settings for M.2 PCIe SSD-1

Question

I installed some additional memory in my Area-51 R5 and now it no longer boots from the M.2 PCIe SSD. The device appears in the BIOS but I get: 'Internal hard disk not found to resolve this issue, try to reseat the drive. No bootable devices' reported by SupportAssist. Now when I installed the memory I did a Restore Defaults in the BIOS and so it is possible that I have cleared a setting that the M.2 needs. So my question is are there any changes I need to make to in the BIOS for it to pick up the M.2 once more.

INXSEX · Accepted Answer

Hello you can go into the bios and load defaults. It usually solves this problems. What memory did you installed ??

Memory it´s very picky in this systems, the problem can be related to the memory also.

Regards.

JOcean · Answer

Just curious, when you reset the BIOS it is possible that the BIOS went back to RAID from AHCI or vice versa. If that happened then the system would indeed not boot.

HatchA · Answer

Setting in BIOS was intel smart response technology, which I think is the correct setting

HatchA · Answer

Thanks for the shout about the memory, it turns out that is the problem as it boots fine with the old memory. For reference the new memory is HX426C16FB3K4/64 which Kingston claim is compatible, so I will go back to them.

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