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It says right here it is simultaneous dual band...
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John

 

then it's A-OK That's the same price mine used to be....guess it's the replacement....I was reading c-net specs where it just said dual band which most of them are....

 

Not sure if this has been covered yet, but does anyone here know that the Covet does not come with Bluetooth?

 

rlabbe: After I spoke with 4 dell reps, I'm pretty sure that if you order 3 drives, the first one is the mini-card and the other two MUST be RAID. There is no-RAID option when you have mini-card (I'm 99.999% sure). You can change the boot order, so you can user RAID or mini-card to boot from - but having 3 drives, and a non-raid setup is not possible at all.

Even from pj11m I understood the same thing. He just switched boot from SSD RAID to mini-card, but RAID was enabled all the time.

 

I think I get your question... I had ordered my machine without bluetooth since I never use it, but it came with a bluetooth receiver anyways, even though it's not listed on the order request or build sheet.

 

I was hoping to be able to transfer files via Bluetooth to my phone. Yet again this is going to be another disappointment from Dell.

 

No Bluetooth in a Covet? When my Covet was ordered, I made sure it had it which it did (talked with rep)....I ended up with a non-Covet because of the USB 3 fiasco.

 

Of course it comes with BT.

However, very, very, very early ones may not (and we're talking right after release).

 

Hello,

my system BIOS came from DELL with the SYSTEM OPERATION = 'RAID'. Even though my system did not come preconfigured as a raid setup.

I have two SSD drives. DISKs 0 & 1.

I installed a fresh copy of win7 Ultimate 64 bit. But at the time I didn't know that I should've set the SYSTEM OPERATION from RAID to AHCI.

I've got a SYSTEM OPERATION 'RAID' mode, although Intel Matrix Storage Manager (at boot up just after the DELL flash screen) says NON-RAID disks.

Question, how do I change over to AHCI mode? I've read that I change the msahci start value from 3 to 0. Did that, rebooted and... changed the BIOS to AHCI and it fails to boot.

It get to the twirling colors MS windows logo and stops, flashes a bsod for .00009 of a second and then reboots again.

So I change the mode in the BIOS to RAID again and it boots fine.

Question #2... this is the big question... is TRIM enabled while I have this bios mode of 'RAID'? I'm guessing 'no'.

Any advice or solution? Otherwise I will need to reinstall the OS again, which I'm not looking forward to since I have a ton of apps configured just right .

Thanks,

Ben

PS. is it possible that the Intel Matrix Storage Manager is the culprit? Did your machines come with this ROM preinstalled? I've swapped and formatted drives and it still remained which means its not something running in a partition on my drives.

PS#2... I'm currently still at BIOS A0. I'm going to try flashing it to the latest version of the BIOS (A02?) and see how that works out. I'll be back in a minute

... nope, same prob when using A02.

 

Looks exactly like mine...I'm going to side by side them and see what the differences are I bought my model last August...didn't think it had been that long....great router!