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AHCI bios not installed
I have changed nothing with my system. I wake up this morning, hearing the hd clicking away (vista doing its indexing thing?) and go try to open up IE. Nothing happens, and everything is just very slow, waiting 30 seconds to show a click. It won't reboot and I wasn't going to wait 5 minutes to do it, so I held in the power button, shut it down, then turned it back on. It does POST, then I see the Dell screen with boot menu and setup, that goes away and I get an error message that says "AHCI Bios not Installed." I'm at work right now and haven't been able to try anything. Not even reset the CMOS. I'm just wondering if anyone has had the same problem, with a solution.
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- I'm running Vista Ultimate 32. I got the computer maybe a month ago. I figured it was just vista doing its indexing this accessing the HD all the time. I don't think the drive is bad. But it will be coming to work with me tomorrow for some tests on the hd. Clearing the CMOS did nothing. I have no idea because it just acted slow and didn't want to do anything. After resetting the CMOS I get "Diskette drive 0 seek failure"
PETER345
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Posted December 27th, 2007 16:00
Given your other problems, it sounds like you have a hardware problem. I would start with the HD diagnostics. I would also back up any data ASAP if it is still possible.
Peter