Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
2 Posts
0
17842
April 15th, 2010 07:00
Dell Vostro 430 Boot Problems
Sometimes when I turn my computer on it doesnt boot into windows and gives no signal to my monitor? The hard drive activity light doesnt flash when it does this, but the power light is on. I have tried disabling some options in the BIOS: the boot from USB option, but have had no luck. I am on the 2.0.1 BIOS.
Any Ideas as to how i can solve this?
Thanks,
Mike.
System specs are: Core i7 860, 4GB DDR3 1333MHz, 500GB HD, ATi 4350
No Events found!
TimvanSteenberg
3 Posts
0
October 16th, 2010 03:00
Same with my desktop: Brand new Dell Vostro 430 i7 860, 3GB DDR3 1333 MHz, 1TB. Been in troublefree use for two weeks, suddenly does not start up any more. After turning the Vostro on:
- it shows the startup screen with the Dell-logo in the center, the intel logo at the right bottom, and the text "Vostro 430" above, and "BIOS 2.2.0" below the progress bar and the options F2 and F12 at the top right.
- the progress bar fills up to a quarter, then a third, then up to half the bar, then very short to 3/4
- then the screen goes black and show a blinking cursor on the top left cursor In this state the Vostro remains.
Nothing more happens. No sounds form the Vostro other then the fan. The Vostro responds to almost nothing. It only responds to pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. This makes it say "Entering powersave mode" and 5 seconds later it starts up again, ending up at the same black screen with cursor over again.
Selecting any other boot device does not make a difference. After selecting any boot-device and pressing enter, directly the same black screen with the blinking cursor appears. The boot options are "HDD:P0", "HDD:P1"", "CD-DVD", "USB: Dell ..", "USB: WDC...", "Pre-boot system assessment" and "Boot utility Partition". I have tried allof them, one after the other. The result is the same for every choice: directly the black screen with the blinking cursor.
I have also several times tried to turn it of, unhook the power cable, wait for the green led at the back of the Vostro to go out, wait for 15 seconds or so, hook up the power cable again and pressing the power-on button again. This has made no difference.
Best regards, Tim van Steenbergen