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computer won't start
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17. January 2007 @ 19:24 |
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I recently moved, and turned my computer off and disconnected it. When I went to set it up at the new place I got a message saying NTLDR is missing, I called Dell And they told me to insert my windows disc, I did that but my cd rom wouldn't start. I went to f2 at start up and cannot find any cd roms, I have two burners a NEC 3550 and A Samsung 16x with lightscribe, neither one of these show as working. Any suggestions? Please help if you can. Thanks in advance.
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18. January 2007 @ 01:59 |
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Try reseting your CMOS and see what happens. If there is no luck the try the burners on another computer .
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ddp
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18. January 2007 @ 06:31 |
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reseat the rom data cables as it might have popped off during the move
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lil1
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18. January 2007 @ 08:47 |
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Yes try reseating the cables as ddp suggested. Go into cmos, boot sequence make cd rom first boot. insert windows disk, select repair, then fix(mbr) master boot record.
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18. January 2007 @ 20:25 |
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I can't get into computer at all. When I went to F2 start up menu it doesn't even show that I have cd drives. I took the cable off and replugged it in, no luck. I bought a new cable and it was to short so I just tried one burner and it still didn't show up. Could it be the motherboard? I just can't figure it out. The hard drive is only a few months old, it is a 120gig Seagate. Computer is a Dell Optiplex Gx240 and is a hand me down, it is about 5 yrs. old.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 18. January 2007 @ 20:35
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18. January 2007 @ 21:32 |
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Do think that you maight have cracked the board when you were connecting the IDE cables to the motherboard ?
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lil1
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19. January 2007 @ 01:14 |
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Could be the MB but lets try a few things first. Make sure the primary & secondary IDE is set to auto detect, also make sure the power cables are pluged into all devices in case securely Dell has been known for faulty Mb
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ddp
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19. January 2007 @ 13:12 |
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iani_2006, almost impossible to crack a board when installing cables unless you use brute force.
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xbocker
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19. January 2007 @ 16:27 |
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this is not a FAULTY HARDWARE PROBLEM this problem is common. For more info please post this question at http://www.i'manidiot.com edited by ddp which is a newly built computer forum site. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
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20. January 2007 @ 10:15 |
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The one thing that baffles me is the floppy drive works, just not the cd rom. If it was the motherboard would the floppy work?
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ddp
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20. January 2007 @ 17:39 |
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floppy drive is not ide as it has own controller chip on motherboard. also floppy uses a 34 pin cable compared to ide 40 pin.
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20. January 2007 @ 18:44 |
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Managed to get cd rom started but when I put in my windows cd I get a disc error. Any suggestions? Thanks
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ddp
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20. January 2007 @ 18:48 |
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what is the error?
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20. January 2007 @ 20:27 |
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It just says disc error. Could be my copy got corupted.
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gozilla
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20. January 2007 @ 20:39 |
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probably, best bet try another copy.
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22. January 2007 @ 14:05 |
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Hi, just thought I would say thanks. My desk top is still down, but I found an error that I hadn't seen before HTDETECT failure. I went on line and bought a windows recovery disc, when it gets here I will try and run that. Wish me luck.
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28. January 2007 @ 20:39 |
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I haven't received my recovery disc's yet, but the good news is I am up and running. I used my Seagate diagnostics and Seagate disk wizard and after running them a few times and several errors I finally got my windows xp to load and everything started to work. Only problem is I lost everthing on my hard drive, but that is a small price to pay since I was down for a month.
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