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Marc Doughty
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November 30th, 2012 09:00
No RAID option on Optiplex 7010?
I have two 7010s at my desk (A09 BIOS) that I was hoping to enable Intel Software RAID on, but there's no option in the BIOS to enable RAID. I'm used to seeing "IDE, AHCI, RAID", but these only give me choices for "IDE, AHCI". Any ideas?
Hi Osprey4. Thank you for your reply. There is no RAID option in the BIOS under SATA Operation on the 7010. Only Disabled, ATA and AHCI. Even after I updated to the latest A17 BIOS. The manual is for the 7010 and the 9010. I think Dell intentionally removed it so you would have to pay more for the 9010 even though the two models are virually identical. Same Intel Q77 chipset which does support RAID. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/business-chipsets/q77-express-chipset.html
Marc Doughty
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Posted November 30th, 2012 12:00
So... the 7010 has a chipset that does Intel RAID, and the software for it is right there in the BIOS (confirmed by putting an older array into the 7010, and it sort of recognizes it as RAID, but won't let me boot to it), but Dell disables it to create a market for the 9010?
That's... Disappointing.
DELL-Madhur B
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Posted December 4th, 2012 01:00
Hi Marc Doughty,
In OptiPlex 7010 RAID is unavailable and in OptiPlex 9010 RAID is available.
Even if the Chipset of both the computers are same, the BIOS in 7010 has no Raid support in it. This is as per the design to customize the computer to work effectively. I agree with you few technical design can cause inconvenience.
For any clarifications feel free to contact me.DELL-Madhur B
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Posted December 7th, 2012 01:00
Hi Mark Doughty,
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Good Evening,
My company just purchased 20+ Optiplex 7010 machines and we are having a problem. We are using cloned HDD from the Optiplex 790 machine and when placed into the 7010, Windows will not boot. I have tried the master copy in a 790 machine and it works perfectly, and does not boot in the 7010. Do you know of anything that could be causing this problem?
You cannot install Drives in a different set of hardware. Cloning is not supported.
You receive a Stop 0x0000007B error after you move the Windows system disk to another computer
You receive error: Stop error code 0x0000007B (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) after moving Drive from one hardware type to another.
Applies to
* Windows Vista Business
* Windows Vista Enterprise
* Windows Vista Home Basic
* Windows Vista Home Premium
* Windows Vista Starter
* Windows Vista Ultimate
* Windows 7 Enterprise
* Windows 7 Home Premium
* Windows 7 Professional
* Windows 7 Starter
* Windows 7 Ultimate
SPN Networks
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Posted December 19th, 2012 10:00
Hello, Did you ever find a solution to this.. I'm in the same situation right now. I had an old Optiplex running xp.. that we imaged with StorageCraft and restored on a Dell Optiplex 7010..
I'm getting the same error message.. 0x0000007B on boot..
Best,
Ivan
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Posted December 26th, 2012 11:00
Osprey,
I read the post clearly - but the answer that was posted was not acceptable for us. Here's what worked for us...
I first tried to inject the Chipset Drivers to see if that would work.. and it failed..
We then went into the Bios and changed the drive setting.. from HCI to ATA
Problem Solved - System booted with my old Optiplex image.
Best,
Ivan
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Posted November 30th, 2012 11:00
Hi Marc Doughty,
RAID is unsupported by OptiPlex 7010.
For any clarifications feel free to contact me.