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Colomusicman
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December 2nd, 2003 22:00
Hardware Failure?
Hello All
I have a Dimension L1000R, and in all my years of dealing with PC's, and Servers I've never seen this problem..... No POST (Of course), but on power-up it makes a sort of clicking noise, and the HDD indicator light flashes insynch w/ the noise. I'm thinking power supply, but I've never seen one do this sort of thing; Usually, they just don't power up. Am I way off target? Is this a DELL specific thing?
BigBrother
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Posted December 3rd, 2003 00:00
Colomusicman,
Rather than not posting, your problem sounds more like the system is not booting. The clicking noise and the synchronous hard drive light point to a failed hard drive. Disconnect the hard drive data and power cable and try to boot to a DOS disk. You can download CDENAB.EXE from this link:
http://support.dell.com/filelib/Format.aspx?ReleaseID=R19775
and make a boot disk if you do not have one. If the system boots up to a DOS prompt, then you can pretty much plan on replacing the hard drive.
Steve