Originally Posted by young-gun13

Awesome! Got one problem though. When I go and change it back to RAID AUTODETECT / AHCI, I save and reboot, then this message comes up (it's not an error message it comes up all the time back when my PC was normal) and it just stays there. So I changed it back to combination and the computer itself works fine, but the sound card, video card, dvd-drives, ethernet cable, and a host of other things don't work anymore.
Help would be AWESOMELY aprecciated.

Joe

Originally Posted by heardsg

Configuration: Precision 380 - have taken the factory SATA, and put in a StorCase frame and carrier the system cannot boot the drive. In the factory configuration and set up the SATA disk works fine. It's when I install the SATA drive into frame and carrier and use the cabling from the frame to SATA-0 is when I cannot boot the drive.. I have left the factory installed jumpers alone on the frame; it's still a Master Drive. I have taken your advise in the System Set up screen (F2) - Diskette Drive is properly set to Internal and I have made sure that Drive 0: SATA-0 is set to "ON" ( I have turned off the SATA-2-3 & -4). Gone to SATA Operations: Changed the SATA setting to "COMBINATION"which now the system sees or identifies the SATA drive for that Thanks! " (In modified config system does not see the drive in the Auto DETECT/AHCI) ; I have ensured that the boot sequence was set to CD rom before HD and made sure the CD XP reinstall is ready. I hit enter and I am thinking I am reinstalling XP; I see the licensing agreement, but that is as far as I get. The option to delete a partition or perform a full reinstall it will not let me do. I know I have added several variables that it could be, but maybe someone has come accross this situation i.e. maybe the frame pinout, carrier or the associated cabling.

Originally Posted by tyleryoungblood

[COLOR=Blue]Hi Young-gun13,

Don't worry about changing the computer back to RAID Autodetect, that was something Dell recommended, but they couldn't give a reason as to why it was a good idea. If your computer works without changing it back I wouldn't fool with it. If you've re-installed your OS you will most likely have to reinstall the drivers for your soundcard, video card, etc. That's pretty normal. If you still have your factory disks you can use those, or you can go to driverguide.com and get nearly any driver you need (you'll have to register but it's free and they don't bombard you with annoying spam emails).

Hope that helps.

Tyler -[/COLOR]

Originally Posted by tyleryoungblood

I completely feel your pain. I have the same system and just fixed the same problem. Here's what I did. And by the way, 2 hours of tech support with Dell did nothing for me other than give me practice understanding Pakistan accents. I eventually stumbled on the solution myself w/o dell's help.

Reboot your system and hit F2 as soon as you see the Dell startup screen (the options are F2 for setup, F12 for boot sequence).

In the System Setup screen, do these steps.

Select Drives:
Make sure your Diskette Drive (3.5 floppy) is set properly (Usually set to Internal)
Make sure that "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"

[COLOR=Red]Go to "SATA Operation":[/COLOR]

Your system proabaly came set to "RAID Autodetect / AHCI" - THIS SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.

[COLOR=Red]CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION"[/COLOR]

Reboot - make sure that the boot sequence is set to CD rom before HD and make sure that the reinstall CD is in the drive. Setup will load, hit enter to reinstall XP. Your HD should now be detected and you should see the licensing agreement.

If you have your files backed up I reccommend deleting the partition and reformatting prior to installing XP, it will give you that option after the license agreement.

Once you have successfully reinstalled the OS, Dell reccommends that you change the SATA Operation setting back to RAID AUTODETECT / AHCI (or back to whatever your factory setting was) to avoid any problems with other IDE devices installed on your system.

Hope that helps!

Good luck!

Originally Posted by jeepmann

I have a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 with 3 Maxtor 74GB drives.

Right now the drives have been formatted and setup as RAID 5. When I try to install XP Pro I get a message that "Setup did not find any hard disk drive installed on your computer". Do I need to install 3rd party SATA drivers? If so I can't figure out which ones. I have searched the archives but nothing that I have read so far as worked.