Dell Optiplex 9020 Small Form Factor Desktop - Speedy i7-4770 3.40 GHz CPU (4th Gen) - 8GB RAM - Ultra Fast 256GB SSD - Windows 10 Professional (Renewed)

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If you are not going to have any SATA drives connected you need to disable them in the BIOS, here you can see I have disabled all of the ports that do not have a drive connected: Disabling the un-used ports prevents an error on startup. I do appreciate that you and most on here work and don’t expect you to waste your time on my problems, but if anybody could tell me if anything I’m doing is not worth it then I would apprecate that. Only latest BIOS Supports Core 2 Quad and 8GB DDR2. USFF does not support 2GB/800 memory units. A 2 GB/800. The way by bios was set up it wanted to see a sata hdd, for some reason, so I enable a non-bootable sata drive and left my original sata boot drive disabled.

The USB dongle is much more convenient and easy to install, but has less space for a decent antenna and can have thermal problems. On the other hand, the PCIe based adapter is much more powerful, more reliable, and has better antenna, but it is harder to install. Thanks for any insight you can provide on the function of all of these partitions in different configurations, and what should be correct for using a NVME as a boot drive in the Optiplex 9020sff. I am trying to install Windows 10 2H22 and it tells me it can’t be installed because the drive may not be bootable. I followed all the steps and everything looks like everything went well. But when I go to the Bios and then go to Boot Sequence and select UEFI, I only see my USB drive listed. I don’t see my new SSD drive there. I know is there because in “System Information” under “General” I can see “Mass Storage” on SLOT2. Also when I boot my computer normally with the (HDD), I open File Explorer, and the SSD is listed there too.I will look at everything again, I can’t see that I’ve done anything wrong, but I now have more experience than when I started this process and you never know. Then added the nvme to the boot list, (which did not appear in the list to start with my take a couple of boots) and put it to the top of the list, and it worked!

Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX400 System User's Guide" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 October 2022.build. The RX 6400 low does not need any additional power from the PSU and can rely solely on the power delivered by the PCIe slot (75W). Upgrading a Dell Optiplex 9020, 7020 or 3020 with PCI NVMe Solid State drive is a brilliant upgrade, and completely transforms the machine. Especially if you are upgrading from a hard drive. Then I realize I haven’t initiate the NVME drive in windows using administrative tools and choose GPT (it didn’t show on explorer at all). So I did that. Then I tried again to CLONE the disk using AOMEI but still fails. Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF doesn't come with any on-board Wi-Fi support. In that case, you have two options to upgrade this model with Wi-Fi. You either use an external USB Wi-Fi adapter (wireless network dongle) or a PCIe-based wireless adapter.

to install aftermarket PSUs to support better GPUs. You can also find that there is space constrains inside the chassis, making it difficult to accommodete larger GPU to boost the gaming performance.

Dell computers that can upgrade from TPM version 1.2 to 2.0", Dell Support Knowledgebase, Article # 000132583, Last published: 19 Nov 2021, Version: 6, https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000132583 The SATA port is one of the places where you can connect a stora gedevice. The Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF comes with three SATA port(s). Not enough SATA ports might limit your options for additional storage devices. Think about your use case and decide if the SATA ports provided by this model will be sufficient. Klik op Apply (Toepassen), Exit (Afsluiten) om wijzigingen op te slaan en het systeem opnieuw op te starten. To cover the needs of your OS, games, and apps, Dell OptiPlex 9020 SFF supports up to 32 GB of DIMM DDR3-1600 RAM. For office work, home use, and light gaming we recommend 8GB of RAM. For everything else, use 16GB or more. Responding to the November 18 question…Uh, I followed the instructions to the letter, initially. I played with it so much afterwards that may have been the case that I enabled SATA drives and forgot to disable them. It is a non-issue for me anymore since I am keeping the SATA SSD as a secondary on this system.