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I would give the bios reset a try -- again, this is a long shot but I really don't know what else you can do yourself.
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Yeah, pull the battery (should be explained in your manual if you have trouble). You could try the Dell forums if that doesn't work. You should be able to get a replacement MB from Dell, not sure how much they'd charge though.
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I took the battery out for a minute. No change.
Shouldn't that have reset the clock though? it didn't |
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may need to wait for some caps to fully discharge.
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This sounds like a motherboard that is on it's way out.
2nd bet is a hard disk on it's way out [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] If you have data on there you'd rather not lose, make sure to back it up next time you can get it to boot successfully. |
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I took the battery out for a minute. No change. Shouldn't that have reset the clock though? it didn't [/ QUOTE ] Did you unplug it? |
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apparently not
did it properly and now have this message: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A07 Copyright 1985-1988 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Copyright 1990-2006 Dell Inc. All Rights Reserved Dell DXP051 Series BIOS version A07 www.dell.com Performing automatic IDE configuration... Drive 0: Disk Drive Drive 4: CD-ROM Device Floppy diskette seek failure Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP program Invalid configuration information - please run SETUP program Alert! Previous fan failure. Alert! System battery voltage is low. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility the good news is I see a green light on my keyboard... I push F2 and I'm in Setup now. I will report back soon. |
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So I had to tell BIOS that I have no floppy drive, and fix date and time, and everything works fine now.
ty for all the help |
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