I have an Asus Essentio CM6870 that I purchased back in the fall of 2012. Not too long ago I got fed up with Windows 8 and purchased a copy of Win 7 from Amazon.
I had a hard time installing it until I found a setting in the BIOS that prevented legacy OS's. I changed the setting and installed 7 and it had been running fine until a few months ago.
In the interest of improving performance and clearing out all the garbage that had built up over time I ran WipeDrive 6 and attempted to reinstall Windows 7.
No problem with WipeDrive or Windows 7, but now every time I start my machine the hard drives display as locked and I get a message saying no bootable device has been found.
The only workaround I have found is to put the WipeDrive CD in, start it in text mode, and run one of their drive unlock commands. This gets me through to the next time I restart my machine, at which point I need to repeat the whole process.
My BIOS is American Megatrends Inc. 0606 and I strongly suspect the issue lies with one of the settings there. But I have tried to tweak them all with no luck.
Has anyone seen this before? Any help would be appreciated.
I had a hard time installing it until I found a setting in the BIOS that prevented legacy OS's. I changed the setting and installed 7 and it had been running fine until a few months ago.
In the interest of improving performance and clearing out all the garbage that had built up over time I ran WipeDrive 6 and attempted to reinstall Windows 7.
No problem with WipeDrive or Windows 7, but now every time I start my machine the hard drives display as locked and I get a message saying no bootable device has been found.
The only workaround I have found is to put the WipeDrive CD in, start it in text mode, and run one of their drive unlock commands. This gets me through to the next time I restart my machine, at which point I need to repeat the whole process.
My BIOS is American Megatrends Inc. 0606 and I strongly suspect the issue lies with one of the settings there. But I have tried to tweak them all with no luck.
Has anyone seen this before? Any help would be appreciated.
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