Hello dear fediverse, I seek out your wisdom, especially in the foss community. I have a VERY particular problem that I decided to come to you all with!

I have a dell xps laptop that will reset the BIOS whenever it dies from battery going to 0%
got the laptop for cheap, it is quite old, I essentially saved it from being ewaste, so I would like to take care of it as best as I can, so "get a new laptop" is not going to fix my problems
Dell got this LOVELY feature where it will "raid" the disks automatically when the bios is reset. Truly lovely feature. The BIOS will also gracefully reset the settings of the laptop and lose my boot partition so I have to manually enter it (I have gotten really good at EFI due to this, but I digress). My two things would be:

1) remove the RAID chip from the mobo to avoid it from trying to do that again, not sure if that would break it completely or how viable that is. I can turn it off in BIOS, sure, but it will go BACK to the setting no matter how I save, truly a feature of "I will fix the computer for you!!!"

2) install libreboot

I am very aware that both options can brick the laptop in question, so please, if anyone has a similar issue and know a better fix or have experience, send help  

Ask for any info and I will let you know in the thread in regards to the laptop

Some hashtags so I hopefully reach the right people:
#linux #opensource #dell #hardwareissues #libreboot #xps13