Remove 'Hard Drive not Found.' warning message and continue booting

Question

I was having fan issues and loaded the defaults for the bios. Now, when it boots it stops at this message:

"Alert! Hard Drive not found.

To Continue press F1 Key" etc etc etc

I am booting into Unraid from an internal USB drive. Once I press F1 it continues fine and boots into the USB Unraid OS. I cannot find in the bios or elsewhere how to disable that message so it can boot without keyboard intervention. Any ideas? It wasn't doing this before. Also, my boot order in the bios only lists the USB Drive, nothing else.

Thanks,

me.myself.i · Accepted Answer

Secure boot is probably to blame, but I have no idea how to turn it off without a good BIOS. Flashing the BIOS should help, but you need access to F12 to do this from a USB stick.

me.myself.i · Answer

Boot with F12. What options do you see?

me.myself.i · Answer

This may resolve your issue: Solved: how to avoid 'press f1 to continue' during boot on PowerEdge T300 - Dell Community

Trackpads · Answer

Well now this is getting dumb.  I was able to get into the F5 diags, F12 wouldnt work. In there I chose to exit and got the Legacy boot menu and moved the USB to the top.  Saved, exit and then it only powers on to a blank screen with the 1-2-3 lit up.  I followed the proceedure to remove the battery and reset the bios and nada.  Nothing, still black screen.  I dont know what to do now.

Trackpads · Answer

I also removed all drives, all cards, and the USB drive and it still does the same thing.  Any ideas what I can do?  Thanks again.

Trackpads · Answer

Not sure if serious but is just my luck :). It was in legacy with secure boot turned off. I turned it on, at the hdd warning I pressed f5 and let the diags  run. Then when I exited it showed me the boot menu and I was able to move the usb drive to the top. Saved and then nada on the next boot. Pull everything and still nothing. Thanks again. It is a precision t7610

me.myself.i · Answer

Sounds serious! Which Precision model are you using? Do you recall if your BIOS was in Legacy or in UEFI mode before this happened? Was secure boot on or off?

Trackpads · Answer

Well heck. The keyboard doesn’t even power up. No lights.

Trackpads · Answer

Is it a brick then? New Motherboard time?

me.myself.i · Answer

As a last resort, read the following link.....it may (or may not) help. Dell does have a BIOS Recovery Tool for computers built after December 2015, but your T7610 is almost certainly earlier than that. Fingers crossed.

https://www.dell.com/community/Precision-Fixed-Workstations/T7610-Bios-reset/td-p/6059190

me.myself.i · Answer

Here is a how to on the Recovery Tool: https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-us/videos/videoplayer/how-to-recover-from-booting-issues-using-the-bios-recovery-tool/6079779755001

Trackpads · Answer

No, it doesn't work, unfortunately. I am looking for a new motherboard.  So ridiculous.

Trackpads · Answer

Just to update, I bought a refurbished motherboard and all is fine.  Definately the bios. Thanks to everyone that helped.

Gbdcabco · Answer

Change boot order. When you changed default it is possible that boot order changed as well. Default is hdd . Assuming I understand the setup correctly.

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Remove 'Hard Drive not Found.' warning message and continue booting

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