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Question posted by bilvanam on January 1st, 2012

No Hard Drive

My hard drive is not detected in the bios. New motherboard and 4 different hard drives but the same problem. Sony vaio pcg-k15. Also there is a dip switch on the upper left side of motherboard with 4 switchs. What are these for? Thank you for any help.

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VAIO User Guide - Page 57

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