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November 26th, 2013 09:00
Inspiron 1545 Not Booting.
Hello All,
I am new to this site as I never really had an issue I could not resolve.
My wife was on our Dell Inspiron 1545 the other day when the screen started to flicker and the computer had to be shut down.
On reboot the dell logo came up but the error message "time of day clock stopped". followed and nothing else would work.
I did some research online and came across a post where some users were able to revive their laptop after replacing their CMOS battery located on the motherboard.
I dismantled my laptop and replaced the battery and put the laptop back together and was able to boot into CMOS settings and can even pick my boot options.
My issue now is when I try booting up my Windows 7 from my HDD the Windows 7 boot screen starts and when the little colors start to appear I get the "blue screen" and the computer reboots.
I have tried this with 2 HDD's and have the same issue.
Is there something I am missing? I did not add or remove any hardware so I am not sure what to do?
Any Assistance would be much appropriated!
Thank You,
Coltdiamond
Coltdiamond
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November 26th, 2013 10:00
Thank you for your quick reply. I will try this later and let you know the results.
ejn63
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November 26th, 2013 10:00
Press F12 at powerup and boot to the Dell diagnostics -- run an extended hard drive test.
Vemmi
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November 26th, 2013 14:00
Also, if the diagnostic passes, try going into F8 and see if you can "Disable automatic restart on system Failure." It will give you a BSOD instead of restarting. kindly Google the BSOD code to find the exact reason for the BSOD (If it says "Unmountable Boot Volume" Then your HDD is in trouble). If no BSOD, Try booting into Safe mode with networking from the F8 menu. Make sure nothing is connected in the USB ports. Also try doing a BIOS defaults (i.e: Press F2 while booting and then F9 in the system setup to load optimal defaults and then F10 to save the settings.).
If diagnostic passes and nothing above worked, Re installation of OS or replacement of HDD are the idle, leftover, permanent solutions .
Chao,
Vemmi
Coltdiamond
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November 27th, 2013 07:00
So the diagnostics passed.
I was able to "Disable automatic restart on system Failure."
The blue screen error I was receiving was STOP: 0x0000007B.
I also just backed up my data on November 5th and did a fresh install so I had very little info to lose.
I just did a new install of Windows 7 and my computer is back to life.
Thanks again for all the help.
Coltdiamond