Boot problems

I tried the CD-ROM thing, and that didn't seem to have any effect. The tray opens and the drive seems to check for a disc, but nothing else seems to change.

Reading from A to D: green, green, green, orange/yellow

Thanks for the tip, though...

Rory

This is a long shot. When it is at the Dell Splash screen for about 30 seconds or so, try ejecting the cdrom.

If that does not work then colors are the four lights in the back (labeled A B C D)?

Jerry

On a whim I tried it without a keyboard or mouse attached, and it worked fine. Turns out once I swapped the mouse for a different one, everything worked fine...

Craziness.

Thanks for the help,
Rory

What operating system do you use? Do you get any beeps? Can you boot with a boot disk? What is your boot sequence? Maybe your bios does not see your hard drive or your bios settings got scrambled.


Dimension 8200
19" M991
1.7 g with 256 PC800 RDRAM
32 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TV out
48 MAX CDROM
16x10x40x CD RW
Conextant HCF Modem
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound
Harman/Kardon HK-695
250 MB Internal zip
Win XP Home
40 gig Hd.
Norton System Works 2002

Must be a bad mouse. Sometimes that cdrom thing works.

Jerry

nt = No Text

windows M E 8100 p4 1.3 128 rdram. nothing else special. but special to me.