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Mediashield rom bios 6.33 detecting array on the my screen

I woke up to this message about detecting array on my screen this morning. I turned the computer off and was able to get back on to my emails and fb and everything seemed fine. When I got from work the screen was black only with that Mediasheild bios detecting array up in the left hand corner. This has never happened before. I defraged the computer and when I came back to check on it the screen was black. What does that mean? Is someone trying to hack my computer?

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NO monitor told at all. nor any PC at all model told some kind of desktop sure, in photo above, but what/? NO TOLD
NO OS told ether and newer OS does not run on N_force chipsets.
that error is pure NVIDIA software for GPU same.
my wild guess
is COIN cell battery dead
and bios now lost 128bits of config data out of NVRAM CMOS>
and goes berserk as all do like that.
and the bits that control BIOS RAID ARRAY are gone ,lost
so it lies to you now (expected). thinking RAID is lost but was never ever used or enabled by you ever. BINGO CHAOS , BINGO FOR COIN
easy no? easy peasy lemon squeezy (new coin day)

MediaShield Rom BIOS 9.83 Copyright © 2007 nvidia corp detecting arrays..(means RAID drive system a HW option in this chip set)
it's a feature on vast PC and for sure business workstations and real servers. hw.

NO PC told so i fact I can know how old the PC is.
nor that dead coin cell at 5 to 7 years old and ignored that long.

  1. a new coin fitted first.
  2. reset bios inside bios
  3. turn off RAID (yeah)
  4. set time and date
  5. set boot order to HDD0 first.
  6. save key bios.
  7. exit bios
cold boot now cured/ fixed.
my wild guess a super old desktop, with DOA/EOL Nforce chip set that has no support at all now, and coin cell is dead.
and for sure is Nforce there (AMD chip set , now fully EOL)
the raid hot key is f10 , given to emachine bios makers for Nvidia Nforce relic RAID chip.
next time tell what PC this is and get faster, shorter and 10x more accurate answers.

The other answer is no hackers it is you not knowing what RAID means and not servicing the COIN cell before it fails.
RAID if enabled has 2 purposes
makes 2 drives or more, run super fast,than just 1.
or my RAID 6 mode to run 8 drives and 2 can fail and no data loss at all and runs perfectly (tad slower) "called production mode by geeks"
production means never goes down like servers use so well..
that is it lacking PC model.

now the reverse of all that
Say it was raid
the rules are so raid common,
he bios or raid F10 setups must show a RAID array there.
or you make one now.
the set setup a RAID now, There. say RAID 1 or ?
then save and cold boot and install the OS to the virtual drive raid0
if before the raid was working F10 into raid and enable it again after new coin cell and safe exit F10
and now set boot order to RAID ARRAY 0 OR AS IT WAS BEFORE THE LOSS.

(COMMON POST ON TOPIC)
You do not have the bios set correctly for the installer to sense it is available for use. Enable raid mode in bios setup. nForce Drivers WILL install the MediaSheild software!!!!!!!!!! The sata hdd's must also be configured into a NVidia Stripe at least using the bios sata/raid config. tool(F10 on my board) then nForce driver install should offer it up. I have no problems installing or removing EVEN ON MediaSheild from Dualboot XP-SP2 X86 or Vista x86.

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SOURCE: MediaShield ROM BIOS 6.33 detecting

You need to be more clear than that. You say detecting an array? What kind of array? When does it say that? Do you mean you have an array of hard drives installed? If so, then so what?

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SOURCE: MediaShield ROM BIOS 6.33 detecting

I did not post the oringal problem, but I have the same problem and can provide more detail ... we lost power and not PC will not boot ... I get the E on the screen for E-Machine and press F10 for Boot Menu or F2 for Bios ... but neither key does anything ... and initially at power up the fan sounds like a jet plane ready to take off but then settles down after a few seconds ...

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