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August 27th, 2010 19:00
Cannot Boot to Windows: Black Screen after BIOS saved. System_error ApiLoadM.cpp
Bear with me. I am not real good at explaining things. I am more of a grunt and point kinda' guy. :P
I am working on my sister's XPS/Dimensions 400/9150. As far as I know it is all as it was from the factory. Nothing added by way of hardware.
A normal boot brings up a screen saying none of the drives were found, hit F1 to continue and F2 for set-up.
In the Set-up it shows the hard drive, CD Rom and DVD.
I save and exit and the screen goes black and stays that way.
Memory test: Passed All
HD test: Passed
The Dell utility disc boots and the system test stops at D:/USBOHCI.mdm error 5 dossier 15 and will not continue.
Somewhere along the line I got an error message (maybe when I tried to boot from Windows) that read: System_Error ApiLoadM.cpp Line 71 Can't load.
Any ideas what I might try? I'd hate to have to admit defeat and send it to a shop.
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jackshack
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September 2nd, 2010 21:00
The start-up is initially under the control of the BIOS code, but to make things a bit quicker, the NVRAM (CMOS) is used to store the system configuration so that the computer doesn't need to perform a poll of its devices on every boot. Pulling the plug and pushing the "On" button discharges the voltage used to keep this stored configuration so that the computer will poll all the existing devices and update the stored configuration.
Sometimes that is all that is needed to kick-start the system into working.
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September 29th, 2010 12:00
Jack thankyou so much for your advice for prior to I was getting nothing but Dell Logo with no F2 or F12 response after interrupting a reinstall of Vista. Daa. Thanks.