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    huge P7811 FX issue

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Liricas, Dec 24, 2009.

  1. Liricas

    Liricas Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys,

    I having biiiig trouble with my P7811 right now. This is what happened: I wanted to put a SSD into my rig so I did that and then I went to the BIOS and accidentally selected RAID. Not having RAID my rig started and I got a bluescreen. Since then I cant access the BIOS anymore. F2 is not working and the text says that the BIOS is shadowed. Im getting crazy because I tried everything. Only thing left is to take out the CMOS battery. But I couldnt find it.

    Where is the CMOS battery/jumper?
    Is there another way to get my rig working?

    Thanks sooo much

    Liricas
     
    Liricas, Dec 24, 2009
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  2. stephen0205

    stephen0205 Notebook Consultant

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    see when its booting u get the bios screen then the raid screen then windows boots, try acessing the raid settings there, i believe its crtl and i
     
    stephen0205, Dec 24, 2009
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  3. Liricas

    Liricas Notebook Guru

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    did that already. in the raid settings i could just create or delete raids. since i didnt have any i couldnt do much. i even put in 2 new hds, created a raid and then i started it. but it got stuck as well.

    thx
     
    Liricas, Dec 24, 2009
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    update: i could manage to install windows 7 and its working... but i still have the issue with the bios, i cant access it an always when i reboot the raid-managment thingy turns up. how can i access the bios or even set it back? i opened the nb but i couldnt find the cmos battery.

    thanks for the help

    EDIT: i just flashed in the new BIOS 9.c.0.10. now everything works great but one point. if I go to the BIOS and I change the hdd back to AHCI (or ANCI) im getting a bluescreen. but when i leave it with raid and i dont have raid nothing happens. I could live with that but always when i boot the raid-managment turns up.
     
    Liricas, Dec 25, 2009
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