Recent content by nick11

Is there any difference between AHCI/NVMe and RAID?

SUCCESS! As @glasskuter said all I had to do was change RAID to AHCI and the SSD was recognized. Since the SSD is fine, it must be the motherboard that's dead.

If I Remember Correctly, when I booted the working laptop with the SSD from the dead laptop I chose Repair / Troubleshoot / Advanced Options and then I got this: This is the right place to change the UEFI setting to AHCI, correct?

So, I can change the UEFI status to AHCI on the working laptop to (hopefully) enable it to boot with the SSD from the dead laptop, correct? I'll try it. The enclosure hasn't shipped yet!

Using a drill I cut off the head of the screw, removed the thermal plate, and removed the SSD (2230) from my laptop. I replaced the SSD in my sister's laptop with the SSD I removed from my laptop but when I tried to boot I got an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. I ordered an 2230 enclosure...

OK, I'll give it a try. Thank you.

And I'll probably work on the dead laptop on Sunday since that's when my handy cousin will come over, so my next reply will probably be next week! OK. I thought about using a drill too but I'm very afraid of destroying the threading of the "screw hole" (sorry, I don't remember the correct...

I did the M-BIST diagnostic test (while the system was connected to AC power) and the battery indicator LED didn't light up. The manual says that no light means: "No fault detected with the system board" " if that's true, what else can be wrong? I've done all the steps in How to...

And I appreciate it very much. I'll try the M-BIST and also try to recover the data (my backups are 3 months old) and then I'll look on the hardware side.

M-BIST is a BUST? :p How to Troubleshoot Power Issues on a Dell Laptop says: "M-BIST must be manually initiated before Power-On Self-Test (POST) process and can be initiated on a Dell laptop that is not able to turn on." no? I tried the power adapter in my 3511 on my sister 's 3520 a`it...

I did most of the troubleshooting (hard reset, AC adapter checks) but not the M-BIST. I'll do that. Just to be sure, the battery status LED that's referred in the two troubleshooting links above, is the LED that's located next to the power adapter socket, correct?

BTW, the 3520 configuration says "SSDR,512G,G44,30S3,QLC,2400A". The device manager says "NVMe 2400A NVMe Micron 512GB". Looking at the Micron 2400 product brief (pdf) I can't figure if I have a 2230, a 2242, or a 2280. 512GB drives come in all 3 forms!

I thought about it too but why would the system power down if the drive died? I had a power down in another laptop. Then a visual inspection revealed a browned out part in the motherboard. A new motherboard fixed it. But this time I can't see anything on the motherboard.

Same here, just to save the data..

No such obstacle!