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Go to SolutionT3500 nightmare..
I have a T3500 Xeon workstation with a 250gb Samsung SSD. I’m running out of space and SSDs are crazy cheap compared to what I paid for the 250gb so I bought a 1TB SSD and installed in a spare SATA bay.
When I turned the machine on, it powered up and got into windows but the SSD was not to be found, so I thought it probably needed to be enabled in the BIOS.
No matter what key I pressed, I couldn’t get into the Bios. I tried F3, F12, F8, del, tab and every other function key for hours and still I couldn’t get in.
So, I figured that the only other course of action was to reset the bios and then access it with F2.
I did this but still I couldn’t access the bios but now I couldn’t get the board to find the SSD because I forgot that the T3500 defaults to a RAID array as a standard default and I can’t get to the bloody bios to change it. Grrrrrrr..
Can anyone please help - I’m all out of ideas and I have to get the PC working again ASAP!
disconnect ALL Drives
disconnect everything but monitor and keyboard.
Turn OFF
Turn ON
Immediately Press
F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12 F2 F12
Now fixed.
It turned out that using a DVI connector from the PC to the monitor for some reason meant that anything that was in the DOS display modes of the pre-Windows phase of boot, wasn’t being displayed at all. I was already in the BIOS but just couldn’t see it!
When I connected using the display port output from the video card, the whole thing showed up and I could see everything. I had to go and buy a display port cable to see this!
Once I was in the BIOS, I just enabled the SATA channel, launched windows and just added the drive after formatting it. Everything showed up after that!
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Posted June 29th, 2021 16:00
Disconnect all drves
Turn on and F2 into bios
Set Sata operation to AHCI
Reboot with the windows drive installed.
If it boots then clone the smaller to larger drive OFFLINE and swap them.
https://www.newegg.com/p/0Y5-000G-00027
Done.