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can't boot up... can't get to bios
I came home for camping to find my computer not running right.. I restarted it to find it only making it past the first sreen... the Dell logo and then all I got was a blank screen with a flashing line... I decided it was time to maybe get a new hard drive... to my amazement I installed the new SATA and everything was going great until I had to restart my computer. Now it did the same thing to me as before.. I get just past the Dell Logo and then the blank screen... I watched and thought maybe it was my floppy drive seeing that is where it seems to stop... so disconnected that but then I get the error message can't find the floppy or whatever.. so reconnected that and have tried to get to the bios but when I press any of my keyboard buttons I end up with a keyboard error and now I see an error that says something like drive 5 not found, parallel ata or something.. can anyone please help me... I have a 11/2 old Dell Dimension 8400..... and for some odd reason after the 14 months.. I have had nothing but problems with this computer crashing on me and now this..PLEASE HELP!!!!
Majestic
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July 19th, 2006 12:00
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July 20th, 2006 21:00
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July 21st, 2006 14:00
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July 22nd, 2006 12:00
rochster
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July 22nd, 2006 23:00
Hello again..
Thank you for all your advice as it seems it was something with one of the USB devices... I have one more question for you... I had bought a new hard drive thinking that was the problem before I found you and your knowledge... is there a way I can use that second SATA for a second hard drive to just store info..?? My mom had ordered this computer for me for all the stuff I do... and when I received it I realized I couldn't put in a regular hard drive...then I called and they told me that you couldn't have two internal hard drives.. but I see I might be able to.. ?? Is it possible..??
Thanks again...
Majestic
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July 23rd, 2006 11:00