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June 9th, 2005 12:00
No boot device selected: system halted
Hi,
My Dimension 4400 was working fine with two harddrives (Maxtor 80 Gb as master and Maxtor 40 Gb as slave) for several months. Recently Win XP SP2 gave me a blue screen and after rebooting I get a black screen with one single line error message: "No boot device selected: system halted".
The two harddrives are recognized in the BIOS as they were before the blue screen but the machine won't boot. I even installed the two harddrives on a different machine to see if they still worked and they did.
All the other posts in the forum discuss the same topic after installing a new or second harddisk. I got the same problem but without changing anything for nearly a year.
I changed the IDE connector cable and I even connected the harddrives with other power cables (from the CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, that still work) to be sure that is not a cable problem.
While booting the system, it takes over 30 seconds for the machine to complete the "System Ram check" for 256 Mb !?!
Do I need to replace my motherboard ?
Does anyone have an idea of how to resolve this problem ?
Thanx
My Dimension 4400 was working fine with two harddrives (Maxtor 80 Gb as master and Maxtor 40 Gb as slave) for several months. Recently Win XP SP2 gave me a blue screen and after rebooting I get a black screen with one single line error message: "No boot device selected: system halted".
The two harddrives are recognized in the BIOS as they were before the blue screen but the machine won't boot. I even installed the two harddrives on a different machine to see if they still worked and they did.
All the other posts in the forum discuss the same topic after installing a new or second harddisk. I got the same problem but without changing anything for nearly a year.
I changed the IDE connector cable and I even connected the harddrives with other power cables (from the CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, that still work) to be sure that is not a cable problem.
While booting the system, it takes over 30 seconds for the machine to complete the "System Ram check" for 256 Mb !?!
Do I need to replace my motherboard ?
Does anyone have an idea of how to resolve this problem ?
Thanx
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BigBrother
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June 9th, 2005 12:00
goge,
This does sound like a BIOS issue. Clearing NVRAM may very well correct this issue. You can clear NVRAM on your system as described below:
To clear NVRAM for all devices and restart the computer:
Steve
ejn63
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June 9th, 2005 12:00
If those check out, the next most likely thing would be a dying hard drive.
osprey4
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June 9th, 2005 12:00
First thing I would do is to reset the system defaults. Follow the instructions here:
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goge
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June 9th, 2005 15:00
Thanx a lot,
I just needed to reset the BIOS to the default settings and everything works. I need to replace my RAM. The Microsoft memory diagnostic tool detected a funny behaviour of my RAM. I think the RAM caused the blue screen and did some funny things that leaded to the BIOS problem.
Whatsoever... Everythings works fine again.
Thanx
osprey4
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June 9th, 2005 16:00