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September 5th, 2013 18:00
Loading DRMK Version 8.00..HELP!?
My Daughter spilled Drink in my Dell Laptop a couple weeks ago I immediately turned it off, took battery out, and turned it over for liquid to drain out. Now weeks later I turn it back on and Dell Start Up screen pops up and then black screen with underscore symbol flashing for few minutes then it says Loading DRMK Version 8.00. Can someone help me out. I really don't want to have to take it to a shop to get it fixed.
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jackshack
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September 6th, 2013 14:00
I'm surprised your computer is working at all. Spilling a sugared drink into a laptop computer usually leaves a film over the board and components that causes the main circuit board to fail.
DRMK Version 8.00 is a special operating system that Dell once used in association with getting a new computer registered. Once the registration process was complete, the bootable partition was changed to the primary Windows partition and the DRMK logo was never seen again, unless you used the Dell PC Restore feature to recover your computer. If your computer has DRMK on it, that suggests a pretty old system, and I'm not sure it would be very economical to repair it.
Did you try the CTRL F11 hotkey combination to use PC Restore? I don't see how you would be seeing that message otherwise. Simply spilling liquid into the system should not lead you that situation. If you feel like playing with the system, you can try using a partition table editor to switch the active partition to the correct one. Mr. Dan Goodell wrote a treatise on this kind of thing in association with the Dell PC Restore program about five years ago, and I think it is still available. See this: Dell PC Restore.
To be honest, however, I believe you would be better off with a newer machine. If you decide to follow that route, you can purchase a USB external drive shell of the correct type to facilitate recovery of any data from the old hard drive that you want to keep. If your computer is as old as I believe it to be, the drive shell would need the IDE/PATA interface, not SATA.