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December 10th, 2007 17:00

OPTIPLEX GX150

GX150 WILL NOT BOOT TO CD OR FLOPPY. IN F2 SETUP I SET IT TO BOOT IN CD OR FLOPPY BUT IT WILL REVERT TO HARD DRIVE.  IS THERE A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM?

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December 11th, 2007 16:00

vibes1,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

Did you save the changes in the bios when you changed the boot order?

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December 12th, 2007 13:00

I AM NOT SURE IT GAVE ME A CHOICE OF SAVING THE CHANGES. THIS COMPUTER CAME WITH 2000 PROFESSIONAL, I UPGRADED TO WINDOWS ME, THEN TO XP. IT STARTED SHUTTING DOWN AND RESTARTING, OVER AND OVER WITH MESSAGES OF CROSS LINKING, I DELETED THE PARTITION, AND CAN'T GET ANY THING ON IT WHEN I GET A STARTUP WINDOW EXCEPT  [ FILE NTFS.SYS CAUSED AN UNEXPECTED ERROR (4108) AT LINE 5091 IN D: XPSPRTM\BASE\BOOT\SETUP\SETUP.C

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December 18th, 2007 11:00

vibes1,

Press the key sequence CTRL+ALT+F8 during POST. This will invoke a Boot Order menu. From there choose to boot to the cdrom. Let me know if this helps or not.

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December 18th, 2007 20:00

NO. SO FAR NOTHING HAS WORKED. I FORMATED AND SET UP OS ON THE HDD USING A DELL DIMENSION 8100, SO I KNOW IT IS NOT THE HARD DRIVE THAT IS THE PROBLEM.  WHEN IT BOOTS UP IT ASKS IF I WANT TO BOOT NORMALLY OR SAFE MODE, ETC., IT  DOESN'T
MATTER WHAT I CHOOSE, IT STILL REBOOTS TO THE DELL LOGON SCREEN.

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December 19th, 2007 17:00

vibes1,

Are you using a Windows XP upgrade cd or a full version of XP?

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December 19th, 2007 20:00

FULL VERSION WINDOWS XPSP2 2002 EDITION.  JUST REDOWNLOADED, SAME THING. I DID DELL DIAGNOSTICS AGAIN IT SAY'S EVERYTHING PASSES, EVEN HARD DRIVE.   BUT THE COMPUTER WAS DOING THIS BEFORE I TRIED TO REINSTALL HARD DRIVE. IT WAS GETTING CROSS LINKED MESSAGES, AND REBOOTING, THAT IS WHY I DECIDED TO REINSTALL THE HARD DRIVE.
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