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    Help ! Bios A09 Operating System Not Found

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by klemens, Dec 21, 2010.

  1. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    HELP !!!

    i just flash the bios to bios ao9...
    i have 920 xm in m17x r2, so i guess i let it flash...

    but after i flash it...
    and turn the computer again...
    it turn out that a black screen with message "operating system not found"

    i load windows seven DVD...
    boot from dvd...
    it ask me something about partition disk and, it have "load driver" "delete" "format" something like that.

    HELP ME...
    WHAT SHOULD I DO...??
    is formatting the hard disk drive or the laptop could solve this ?

    How can i solve this....
    thanks...
     
  2. _XIII_

    _XIII_ Notebook Consultant

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    Hi , if you have your hard drives in RAID 1 or 0 , you should enable RAID in the BIOS , for some reason it gets disabled when you flash de BIOS
     
  3. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    i have hard drives in RAID O...
    then how an i enable RAID in the bios...
    i'm still newbie in hdd...
    please help me...
    thanks
     
  4. dave-p

    dave-p Notebook Deity

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    look for SATA Field and set it to RAID
     
  5. _XIII_

    _XIII_ Notebook Consultant

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    haha no problem so here's what you should do , when you see the alienhead BIOS splashscreen press F2 , once in the bios main screen go to Advanced menu and set the SATA Operation to RAID. Then enable each drive for RAID.
     
  6. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    Ok...
    i got it...
    so i need to go to bios and make it RAID Enable...

    and after that will it go back normally ?
    or is there something else i should do ?
    in order to make my laptop normal again ?

    thank you very much...
    i appriciate all of your help...
     
  7. _XIII_

    _XIII_ Notebook Consultant

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    it should work fine after enabling raid no need to do anything else :)
     
  8. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    ok...
    i'll try it now...

    thank you very much...
     
  9. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    FIRST, i want to say :
    THANK YOU for all the help...
    PROBLEM SOLVED...

    SECOND, sorry cause i'm still newbie with these SATA RAID things...
    i'm really sorry to trouble you guys with my problem...

    BUT I really appreciate ALL OF YOUR HELP...
    Thank you moderator...
    Thank you _XIII_
    Thank you dave-p


    and i send attachment about my DXDIAG....
    Would you check whether i have successfully flash the Bios ?
    so far i check, i did flash the bios well
    But i'm afraid i'm might lost something or some step....

    Thank you...
    i'm really appreciate all of your help...
     

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  10. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If you wanna check that the bios flash worked, click start, type in system information and hit enter....will bring up all your system details and the bios version you have currently will be listed within.

    Flashing the bios can "knock out" your raid settings....the same thing happened to me and scared the heck outta me....did the above steps though and enabled in bios and no probs since.....
     
  11. klemens

    klemens Notebook Consultant

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    i've check as you said, and its clear, AO9 BIOS....
    Thank you....
    yeah, i'm scare at first...
    but thanks to all alienware m17x owner who help me...
    problem solved...
    Thank you....

    :)
     
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    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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