Folks I know with the Dell inspiron 3847 to be able to configure the sata drives as RAID1 or any RAID configuration won't work. So I bought and installed a Vantec 4+1 SATA II w/RAID.
I have the OS reinstalled on the RAID configured drives for the Vantec controller. Since I have no sata drives attached to the onboard sata ports, I get the error message stating (paraphrasing here) similar to going into setup or press F2 (we will say to continue).
So pressing F2 to continue reads the Vantec RAID controller and boots into Win 7 64 bit, no issues, runs great.
I set the BIOS to no stop on the error messages however it still errors so I have to press a key to continue. I've even set the Bootup devices to if I recall correctly to boot to RAID, which the setting is listed I think since I have the Vantec raid controller configured for Raid 1..
So how do I enable in the BIOS to just simply boot up and move to the RAID controller without an error message and go from there???? Its been a few days since I booted up, so I am going off of memory on the message, however it is very close to what the message states.
I think if I disable any boot up devices, then naturally nothing boots and the computer sits at the Dell boot up logo. I can't find any BIOS settings for the configurations online in Dells manuals. Not sure if there is any way to get the BIOS configuration documentation somewhere?
the motherboard installed is a Great Bear motherboard MIH81R / 13040-1M is what I see stamped on the MB... thanks if anyone has any ideas.. appreciate your time.