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No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:13 am
by thewolfe
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 that's almost never turned off which was done last night and now I get a "No boot device available
SATA-0 Installed
SATA-1 Installed
SATA-4 None
SATA-5 Installed
I have a slave drive that I back my docs up to.
Any ideas?
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:35 am
by thewolfe
When I go into the Boot menu it does not have the Master HD highlighted. If I highlight it and restart it will startup. But when I restart it goes back to "No boot device....." but I can go to the boot menu and do the above again and there is joy.
Can I do something in the BIOS to have it "remember" the boot sequence or ????????
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:45 am
by thewolfe
And happy Labor Day!
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:48 am
by Isaac
It almost sounds like your battery is dead, explaining why your settings aren't holding. But I think you get a massive error when your battery dies, so probably not...
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:57 am
by Krom
Isaac wrote:It almost sounds like your battery is dead, explaining why your settings aren't holding. But I think you get a massive error when your battery dies, so probably not...
Most motherboards won't report an error even if you run the system with no battery at all, so its definitely worth checking.
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:58 am
by AceCombat
im thinking the same thing..... and just like issac says there should be a warning that the bat is dead or low voltage.....
Krom, IIRC every Dell ive ever worked on if the Batt was low or dead it would report it
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:13 am
by thewolfe
It's keeping good time if that would be any clue.
Won't hurt to change the battery for sure.
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:35 pm
by Jeff250
Which boot menu are you talking about? Are you setting your default boot device in the BIOS and saving your settings or are you using the one-off boot menu that you use a different shortcut key to access? (The latter never saves your setting.)
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:44 pm
by TechPro
thewolfe wrote:It's keeping good time if that would be any clue.
Won't hurt to change the battery for sure.
The battery supports the clock only when the power is off. While power is running, the battery is not needed.
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Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:53 pm
by thewolfe
I'm using the Function key (F2 or F12, I believe) at startup. Not going into the BIOS.
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:06 pm
by Jeff250
That's just a one-off boot menu that doesn't save the setting. Try going into your BIOS and saving the default boot device.
Re: No longer a friends computer but one of mine
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:21 pm
by thewolfe
That did it! It was seeing my Slave drive as the first priority. Why I don't know. Any ideas on that?
Thanks, y'all rock!