Joined: Fri Jan 12 2007, 04:38am
Location: Florida
Posts: 687
I had to replace a HD in a client's Dell Demension 3000, and even after a bios flash it would keep comming up with a "Primary drive 1 not found strike f1 to continue, f2 to run set up." error upon boot. When you hit F1 WinBlow$ would boot as normal.
All hardware and set up was hunky dory - but I ffigured it out - this goes for all dells:
* Reboot system and enter the BIOS Setup by pressing F2. * Turn on Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Num Lock. * Press ALT + E then ALT + F (should hear beep) then ALT + B
Your system will reboot - and may give a message about detecting drives. From here on out it will boot normally.
Basically it has to do with an error in the IDE controllers. They need to make a patch, but if anyone encounters this - it's a quick fix.
