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December 17th, 2009 12:00

Flashing Cursor

It boots past the Dell screen and then the flashing cursor. I have removed the HD, the memory. I have updated the BIOS. I can get to the F2 and F12. Run the diagnostics; and it says all is fine... Yet, windows still fails to boot. Anyone have any ideas? 

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    Rajaganesh_83

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    Posted December 19th, 2009 15:00

    Are you having Inspiron desktop 530 with 320 or 500 gb Samsung HDD installed,if thats the case just leave the computer on the blinking cursor screen for 2-3 hours, the computer will slowly boot into the windows ,this is nothing but the HDD manufactuterer has installed a builtin diagnostics on the HDD that will check for any HDD errors and will fix it by itself....

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    stvrdl

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    Posted January 1st, 2010 09:00

    I have an Inspiron 530 with a 500gig Samsung.

    This is happening on a monthly basis.

    Where did you get you info about the HDD manufactuter diagnostic?

    Thanks,

    Steve

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