Optiplex 380 storage controller mode selection in BIOS

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by sebus, Apr 14, 2010.

  1. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    #1 sebus, Apr 14, 2010
    OP 380 comes with Win7 by default (so original Dell SLIC etc)

    But it has NO options in BIOS for IDE mode selection, it is basically locked to a legacy IDE

    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27DF&SUBSYS_04001028&REV_01\3&172E68DD&0&F9
    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C0&SUBSYS_04001028&REV_01\3&172E68DD&0&FA


    Intel 82801G ICH7 Family

    Does anybody think that this could be "adjusted" by a mod?

    Thanks

    sebus
     
  2. gabiz_ro

    gabiz_ro MDL Member

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    #2 gabiz_ro, Apr 15, 2010
    Depend of southbridge chipset
    Plain ICH7 doesn't support SATA AHCI .
    First identify your chipset 82801XXX and see which variant is then if sata is supported ... many work to do.
    In my case ICH7-M on inspiron I've managed to write chipset registers and set ABAR using custom pci option rom but after that comes more problems can't boot from internal disk,altough booting linux or live win7 from external disk all seems fine.
    And for ICH7 family can't find ahci option rom,just raid rom exist.
     
  3. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    #3 sebus, Apr 20, 2010 (OP)
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    #4 gabiz_ro, Apr 20, 2010
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  5. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    #5 sebus, Apr 20, 2010 (OP)
    Bugger, they (Dell) just made a nice desktop (with all the VT bits) and used c**p chipset

    Thanks

    sebus