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Optiplex 3010 with third party RAID controller
Hi,
I installed an Adaptec 1220SA RAID controller in an Optiplex 3010 and have two HDD's attached to it. There aren't any drives connected directly to the motherboard. Neither the RAID card nor the drives attached to it are visible in BIOS, so they can't be chosen as boot devices.
The machine starts OK, goes thru the initialization of the RAID controller OK, but then it stops with a 'No hard disk drives detected' warning, giving 3 choices: continue, go to bios, go to the self test utility.
However, if F1 (Continue) is pressed, it boots up perfectly from the RAID drives and everything works as expected.
Any ideas how to get rid of that error/warning message?
speedstep
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August 27th, 2013 12:00
There are several issues here none of which have anything to do with Dell.
INT13 = MSDOS = MBR Partition. UEFI only allows GPT partitions.
Any Driver that is not 100% WHQL Certified by microsoft Will not load in any 64 bit version of Windows.
Any Bios that is not 100% extortion fee paid to microsoft for a certificate WILL NOT LOAD with secure boot or UEFI BIOS Class 2.3.1 and Higher.
Class 3 UEFI Bios has NO CSM aka No Legacy Mode Ever so you are restricted to Microsoft Certified 64 Bit OS Period End. No Syslinux or WIN9X booting from USB Flash or CD or DVD or hard drives of any kind.
mtkinf
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October 23rd, 2015 20:00
Thank you hlassnig, your settings fixed the problem for me as well. The key was the PXE setting.
Optiplex 9010 with a PERC 6i PCIe card running SAS RAID, no SATA HD's.