Re: Can't boot off of new SATA drive

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If you used an add-in SATA card because the old Dell did not
have SATA built into the mobo, why would Dell or any other
company have a BIOS for hardware that did not exist when it
was made. Until the system boots, the add-in card doesn't
work.

Nothing wrong with Dell, they offer a good value. Dell does
make their own mobo [or has them made to their spec]. When
you bought then SATA controller and hard drive, did you
check to see what options were offered?

In the Dell BIOS, look for booting from something other than
a floppy, optical or ATA drive. If the SATA card has a BIOS
built-in, it might boot of all other options in the Dell
BIOS are setback.



<mickeddie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| Vanguard wrote:
| > <mickeddie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| >
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| > >
| > > So you think it would help if I told you which mobo I
have? It is a
| > > Dell in the Poweredge 400SC. When I asked Dell who
makes the mobo
| > > they
| > > said they make their own.
| >
| > Very often that information does help. After getting
it, I was able to
| > find:
| >
| >
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe400sc/en/ug/j0323c30.htm#1039152
| >
| > It mentions the "Boot Sequence" option in the [BIOS]
setup screens.
| > However, true to Dell's inability to explain their
hardware (because
| > they don't know what components they will be slapping
into the box that
| > week that simply meets the specs for the box and why
many customers
| > won't bother with Dell if they want a fixed and known
set of hardware in
| > all their hosts), all it says is:
|
| > Unfortunately Dell doesn't bother to actually list what
selections are
| > available, so I can't tell if "hard drives" includes a
SATA device. The
| > show the screen for the option and that you hit the
Enter key for the
| > sub-screen but they don't bother showing that
sub-screen. Generally I
| > have found Dell's documentation to be verbose but
vacuous.
|
| Yea, I know. I would never buy a Dell...this was given to
me. I'm
| going to build a Conroe system next month. From that link
the "Boot
| Sequence" does NOT list the SATA controller...just IDE and
USB. This
| is what I need to call back Dell tech support.
|
| > Since you had them on the phone, what did they say on
how to boot from a
| > SATA drive?
|
| They said "I don't know why there is no SATA listed in the
BIOS. I'll
| see if I can find anything and email you if I do.
|
| > > The SATA ports are right on the mobo...I will poke
around the bios
| > > some
| > > more.
| >
| > Then use whatever keys your BIOS accepts to cycle
through each of the
| > preset settings for the boot drive ordering. One of
them should include
| > the SATA device. If the system BIOS does not include a
SATA device in
| > the boot drive order, maybe after the system BIOS has
completed its POST
| > you will then see a one-line blurb saying that the SATA
BIOS is loading
| > and it is at that time that you have to hit a key to
enter that BIOS
| > (that's how SCSI cards often work) where you can specify
to boot from a
| > SATA drive. However, since the SATA BIOS is ran after
the system BIOS,
| > the system BIOS would've already found the IDE hard
drive to boot from
| > (whether there is an OS there or not). That means you
would have to
| > disconnect all the IDE drives from the IDE ports so the
system BIOS
| > won't find them. Disabling the IDE ports would also
prevent booting
| > from them but then you can't use the IDE drives. Maybe
the system BIOS
| > has a boot drive order that doesn't include the IDE
drives so you don't
| > have to go with an IDE daughtercard to keep using the
IDE drives.
|
| In my OP I said I disconnected the IDE drive. I did NOT
unplug the
| cable from the mobo...just from the drive unit. And like
I said when I
| mirrored the SATA drive I selected the option to make it
bootable, but
| when the system booted up with the IDE drive NOT connected
I got a
| message "no OS installed" or "no OS found". I guess I
could disconnect
| the IDE drive and boot off of the Windows CD and see what
happens. But
| then when I reconnect the IDE drive to use as a backup I'm
right back
| where I am now.
|
| <sigh>
|


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