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Allycat97

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April 1st, 2018 07:00

Vostro 260s will not boot - 4th one with problem.

I’ve had this desktop for a few years and it has sat in my room since September unplugged from the wall. When trying to start up, I get ‘No boot device available, press any key to restart the system’ sometimes this does a full loop and sometimes I get a no harddrive message.
  • fireberd

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    Posted April 1st, 2018 08:00

    I would suspect the CR2032 CMOS (BIOS) backup battery, located on the motherboard, is dead and you need to replace it and then reset the BIOS to the factory defaults, for a first step.  Might not fix the problem but as noted a first step. 

     

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