If you still have your utilities/driver CD that came with your notebook, just boot from it and the diagnostic program will start automatically. To boot from the CD, hit the key repeatedly when you see the Dell BIOS splash screen.
If you no longer have that CD, you can download a floppy disk version of the diagnostics. The downloaded file will create 4 floppy disk (I believe) that you can boot from to run the diagnostics. HERE is the link for you.
If you have a CDR drive, then you can go to my web site My Site and download a ISO image file that you can use to burn to a CDR disk. It too is a bootable CD.
Bay Wolf
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September 19th, 2004 03:00
I would suggest running Dell's diagnostics on your hard drive to see if it is going.
danzber
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September 19th, 2004 04:00
Bay Wolf
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September 19th, 2004 15:00
If you still have your utilities/driver CD that came with your notebook, just boot from it and the diagnostic program will start automatically. To boot from the CD, hit the key repeatedly when you see the Dell BIOS splash screen.
If you no longer have that CD, you can download a floppy disk version of the diagnostics. The downloaded file will create 4 floppy disk (I believe) that you can boot from to run the diagnostics. HERE is the link for you.
If you have a CDR drive, then you can go to my web site My Site and download a ISO image file that you can use to burn to a CDR disk. It too is a bootable CD.