Deminsion 4600 Cant boot ' No boot device available strike F1'

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Hello All,   This is my first time posting so I will try to give a good idea of what I have done so far;   The power supply on my pc 'Dell 4600i' went dead I took a power supply from my 'Dell 4400' and replaced it I then took the hard drive out to put it in another pc to give the data off Now when I put the hard drive back in the 4600i and put in the reinstallation cd I am getting the 'no boot device available', i went into the bios and it is not detecting either the cd room or the hard drive, but when i changed the power supply it booted up fine everthing was working I tried chnaging the ide cable for the hard drive, resetting the bios, taking the batery out and putting it back in nothing seems to work I checked the lights on the back and A,B,C is green D is yellow I am kind of lost here, any help is welcome, thanks in advance :smileyindifferent: Message Edited by sherwill22 on 09-09-2007 05:44 PM

DELL-Donald K · Answer

Boot to BIOS   Press ALT_+ F to reset defaults   exit n reboot, drives should be detected

sherwill22 · Answer

I tried 'Alt + F' to reset to the default config, and only the hard drvie is being detected , I also tried;   Cap lock + scrol lock + num lock the Alt + E New IDE cable New Optical disk, I even tried putting one drive connected at a time and still nothing In the bios I have Primary master, Secondary master, and secondary slave enable, and under Secondary master and Secondary slave it says unknow device I also noticed that the system is not deteced the USB ports onboard and the ones in front. Lastly the bios version is A07, is there a newer version out there and if so, do you think if I upgrade the bios it might allow it to detec the settings?

sherwill22 · Answer

I updated the bios to version 12, did the Alt + f2, and Alt + b, after the boot it configure all the IDE devices and now I am working fine, hope it stays this way :) thanks for your help. After doing a few search I realize this forum has a lot of useful info, keep up the good work everyone one.

P.S The only problem I am still having is the network card, now I loaded up the dell drivers, and the Intel drivers for the on board card, I even put an extra pci card on before I did the reinstall but the system is not picture up the pci card, and it is said the network card is unplugged for the on board card but it is not

Message Edited by sherwill22 on 09-10-2007 09:51 AM

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