Blue Screen

Question

Last night my Dimension went down with the blue screen saying it was performing a physical memory dump. It told me to rstart, which I did, now it won't boot up at all. 2 beeps on starting and I get the choice of f1 to retry (does the same) or f2 to enter setup menu (lots of stuff i don't understand).
I tried booting from the re-installation CD, but I get the same blue screen again.
Could it be anything to do with the netgear network card I had installed earlier in the day to go with the cable modem?

fishnbanjo · Answer

Since you added a piece of hardware and cannot reboot your PC it could be the hardware or the result of you having been in the box and may have inadvertantly disturbed a cable. I'dd probably remove the NIC card and see if I were able to reboot properly since you really have nothing to lose trying this and might even find out it is not the problem as well. Best of luck.
banjo

Dimension 8200
P4 1.8GHz
512 Mb PC800 RDRAM
60Gb HDD (Maxtor)
64mb GeForce2 MX w/TV out card
15" Flat Panel
16-10-40 CDRW (Samsung)
16x DVD (NEC)
Dell Quietkey keyboard
Microsoft USB Infra Wheel IntelliMouse
Telex Microphone
Altec Lansing Wireless Speaker System
SB Live
Cambridge Sound Works 2000FPS speakers
HP 4L Laser Printer via USB extension
HP 1315 PhotoSmart Printer w/SmartMedia drive
UMAX Astra 3400 Scanner
10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
3 Belkin USB Hubs
eUSB SmartMedia Adapter
Logitech WingMan Force USB
Logitech Webcam Pro 3000
Westfall DSL Modem via Verizon
Win XP Home Edition
Win XP Sm Bus Office
Norton Utilities System Works
Zone ALarm
IE 6.0, Netscape 4.7 and 6.2 and Real1Player

jonhayward · Answer

Thanks for that. Unfortunately am 5 miles from PC...had to use work PC to use internet. Thinking of it the engineer who came to install the modem and NIC said that XP "sometimes doesn't like this network card" nice of him to say, but it was working fine for a few hours so I thought nothing of it.
When I restarted after the blue screen that was the first time since he'd finished installing it.
If removing the card doesn't work, any other ideas? Is there an easy was to completely start from scratch?

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- Dimension 8200
- P4 1.8GHz
- 512 Mb PC800 RDRAM
- 60Gb HDD (Maxtor)
- 64mb GeForce2 MX w/TV out card
- 15" Flat Panel
- 16-10-40 CDRW (Samsung)
- 16x DVD (NEC)
- Dell Quietkey keyboard
- Microsoft USB Infra Wheel IntelliMouse
- Telex Microphone
- Altec Lansing Wireless Speaker System
- SB Live
- Cambridge Sound Works 2000FPS speakers
- HP 4L Laser Printer via USB extension
- HP 1315 PhotoSmart Printer w/SmartMedia drive
- UMAX Astra 3400 Scanner
- 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
- 3 Belkin USB Hubs
- eUSB SmartMedia Adapter
- Logitech WingMan Force USB
- Logitech Webcam Pro 3000
- Westfall DSL Modem via Verizon
- Win XP Home Edition
- Win XP Sm Bus Office
- Norton Utilities System Works
- Zone ALarm
- IE 6.0, Netscape 4.7 and 6.2 and Real1Player
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jonhayward · Answer

Thanks everyone. I'm off to try some stuff...I hope I don't have to come back any time soon!

gvmax · Answer

Since it mentioned memory dump in your original post and you got two beeps try this link it explains error codes and beeps http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dim8200/codes.htm#1101572
hope this helps

Dell Dimension 4100 P3 866mhz

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Email: gmaxwell@sympatico.ca

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