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January 1st, 2025 23:51
Uefi boot is missing
I have a dell inspiron 15 3511 laptop bought around 3 years ago. The laptop was working fine till around 2 months ago. It started when I used a lower power adapter by mistake, then I started to have boot problems. I'm not sure if the use of the lower power adapter is the cause of the boot problem.
The following itmes are tried:
1- When turning-on the computer, I have the following message: Install driver to show hardware.
2- When I use the media installation USB, it allow me to start the installation till seaching for the disk to install-on. Only the disk used for the media installation is detected.
3- On the boot configuration (when selecting F12) I can see
a- the UEFI TOSHIBA MQO1ABF050 84RRCQNT (which is the installed SSD SATA drive)
b- UFEI HTTPS BOOT
4- On the storage page, we can see the SATA SSD and the M.2 PCIe SSD. ( I added recently the M.2 hopping to be able to boot the system)
5- I tried to reset the battery and CMOS coin battery, but was not able to find the location of the CMOS battery on this laptor.
I tried many other approaches, but was not able to resolve this problem.
Any help on clarifying how to access the boot system is highly appreciated.
Thanks and Regards,
Chakerma
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ejn63
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January 2nd, 2025 15:48
Go into setup (F2 at powerup) and disable IRST (Intel rapid storage/RAID). Save and restart -- the installer will then find the drive.
Chakerma2025
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January 8th, 2025 02:20
@ejn63
Thanks a lot for the advise. The proposed solution worked perfectly. I checked for sometimes on the internet for solution, but did not find one till now.
Thanks again.
Chakerma