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PPenguin

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December 2nd, 2007 19:00

Dell Inspiron - 8600 - Bootup Problem

Hello. I'm having some problems with my bootup, as the title suggests. Let me explain what is happening.
 
This morning, I woke up, and went on my laptop. It worked fine, and I finished what homework I had, browsed my regular forums, then I left, turning it off. When I returned, all was normal, but I cannot turn on my laptop.
 
When I turn it on. All's normal. Window's XP Logo appears. After a few seconds, it starts making a noise. After the logo dissapears, and the noise stops, I get the blue screen of death, for a fraction of a second. It then restarts itself, and continuously repeats, and repeats.
 
I would rather not have to reformat again, which is why I'm posting here, for some suggestions, on what I should do. Also, how to do it, would be appreciated.
 
So. I'm running Windows XP, Home edition. I can't really tell you much more off the top of my head, though I can grab any info that could be of use.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
*A quick edit. Yes, I have used the search button, and looked for similar issues. Though, not finding any, perhaps I missed one? Also, Safe Mode does not work, either. It similarily just crashes, and restarts.*


Message Edited by PPenguin on 12-02-2007 03:43 PM

Message Edited by PPenguin on 12-02-2007 03:47 PM

PPenguin

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December 2nd, 2007 21:00

Well. The CD Drive has been working, as I recently installed a program 2 days before this happened. (Friday).
 
I would love to download something, but my laptop doesn't load past the boot screen, which is a problem.
 
Though, would it be possible to set my computer's date back to the last restore point, during this? I recall someone saying their is a way..But. Yeah.

PPenguin

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December 2nd, 2007 22:00

When I removed the hard drive, I got the blank screen after Dell dissapeared. It then said --
 
"Primary hard disk drive 0 not found"
 
Then, it began trying bootable devices, and said there are no bootable devices found.

ejn63

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December 2nd, 2007 22:00

Since you can't get the diagnostics to run, you're going to have to use another system to download the hard drive manufacturer's (or Dell's) diagnostic utility and prepare your own boot CD - if the CD drive is OK, the CD is not.

The alternative is to see if you can get into Safe Mode and find out what's wrong (F8 at startup) - or simply try booting the Windows CD, format the drive, and reload everything from ground up.

PPenguin

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December 2nd, 2007 22:00

Okay. I'll try to find out where to locate the utilities are, then I'll burn a CD. I want to save Reformatting as the last option, as I don't wish to do this.
 
*Edit* Thanks. :]. I'm also going to try calling Dell, see what they think of this..


Message Edited by PPenguin on 12-02-2007 06:21 PM

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