Cannot Boot System

Hi there,

 

After walking into be greeted by the dreaded Blue Screen this morning, my system will not start up. I receive the message:  "Floppy diskette seek failure".

 

I've read all the other forum posts related to this error and have done the following:

 

uninstalled the original 2 x 512MB RAM chips

removed and replaced the mobo backup battery

 

And now I'm getting the "Floppy diskette seek failure" message. My system has no floppy drive, so I've disabled the 'internal floppy' by going into the Bios settings and turning diskette drive off. But now when I try booting, it just continually loops back to the error message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully... etc" with the options to start in Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration, Start Windows Normally. It just loops back to this message regardless of what startup option I choose.

 

My system has 3GB RAM (2 x 512MB chips when purchased, and 2 x 1GB chips installed some months ago) - full system details are below. I think one of my 512MB RAM chips failed, because when I try to start up on the 2 x 512 chips only, all I get is long beeps and lights 3 & 4 stay on.

 

I'm assuming that not being able to start up is due to a Bios error somewhere, however I can't seem to fix it.

 

Please help!

 

SYSTEM DETAILS

 

Dell Dimension 9100

3 GB RAM (currently operating on 2 x 1GB chips only)

1 x DVD-CDR Drive

No Floppy

Windows XP Pro

BIOS Revision A02