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January 20th, 2006 21:00

Boot Failure

I have a Latitude CPx J50GT and I cannot get into windows. I get the dell bios welcome screen and after that, just a white underscore blinking, nothing more. What could be the problem?
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    speedstep

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    Posted January 21st, 2006 02:00

    Hard drive is bad. Boot from Resource CD and run diags or make a boot floppy and run diags. Or boot from a Linspire Live Boot CD.
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    tycomps

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    Posted January 25th, 2006 14:00

    same scenario with a cpx h500t, the flash took as the dell screen shows v14, my flashing cursor comes as the result of pressing f2 for setup or f12 for boot sequence. if nothing is pressed at prompt screen remains blank after initial dell screen.
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    tycomps

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    Posted January 25th, 2006 15:00

    never mind. undocked latitude and it came up, loaded docking software and it came up docked again.
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    zeba

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    Posted January 29th, 2006 19:00

    Is it possible to boot from 'Linspire Live boot Cd' even if the Hard drive is completely dead?

    How about Knoppix?

    Thanks

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