Perc controller: strike the f1 key to continue, why?

[J]

Sunday

Dell 1600sc win 2003, sp2

We were recently given this computer. The OS was loaded.

Using 2 disks in a raid 1 configuration.

Upon boot the following is displayed :

primary hard disk drive 0 not found

poweredge expandable raid controller bios 3.27 apr 29, 2002
press ctrl m to run config utility
ctrl h for webbios

HA -0 bus 0 dev 4 perc 4/sc standard fw 1.72 dram=32mb
1 logical drive found on the host adapter
1 logical drives handled by bios

strike the f1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility.

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Pressing f1 boots the os. And all is well.

But every boot requires pressing F1.

I have set bios to boot from the PCI scsi card.

And Perc is set to boot from the drive.

Clues? Guidance? ,.....

J

 

[J]

Wrong forum.
Cannot always keep track of all the problems I am attempting to fix.
A little weary today.

Sorry.