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    vostro 1500 and FCM

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bj02454, May 15, 2008.

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    bj02454 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got a FCM (ITM), and after installing drivers, bios hangs at finding drives - setup shows my 160gb hd, but bios will give me an error "can't find a bootable hd". removing or disabling the fcm fixes the problem. Any ideas? I have the A05 bios and I'm running vista ult x64.
     
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Make sure in the boot order, the hard drive is listed before the flash cache module.
     
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    bj02454 Notebook Enthusiast

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    flash cache doesn't even show in my boot order list; the only thing selected is the HD. If I boot to a USB and run the intel utility, it shows FCM as installed, but AHCI as not enabled in bios (even though it shows up in dell bios and is confirmed in windows - I'm running it now)
     
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