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Precision M6500 Blinking Cursor on BIOS boot
I have a Precision M6500. It does not have any Hard Drives on it. BIOS is A04
Default BIOS setting has SATA at RAID.
I can change SATA = Disabled and it will boot to BIOS
I can change SATA = ATA and it will boot to BIOS
I change SATA = AHCI, it pretends to boot to BIOS but gives me blinking cursor. Aborting boot with F2 or F12 also gives blinking cursor.
I open back panel, remove CMOS battery, plug it back in again, laptop will boot up. Unfortunately it boots into SATA = RAID setting.
How the heck do I change it to AHCI so I can put a Hard Drive in start using the darn thing? I see I'm not the only one who has this problem of blinking cursor, however in my case, it is not random. It only happens after I change SATA = AHCI, not otherwise.
griftopia
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August 24th, 2017 07:00
Okay if I don't have a Hard Drive installed, then BIOS will give blinking cursor if set to AHCI. Which brilliant developer / designer thought this up is anyone's guess. At least document this somewhere for god's sake. I wasted 2 days on this.