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LiNx88
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_ 		20. May 2005 @ 06:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay...

I went to turn on my computer, but it froze on a blue dell screen (the first thing that you see, before memory tests - before anything). Thinking that it was just a little slow today, I left the room.

Coming back two hours later, it was still froze on exactly the same screen. Now! After trying to fix it for a while, I discovered the wierdest problem ever.

The computer freezes on the dell screen [u]until you press EJECT on the cd drive[/u]. The second you press the eject button, the computer starts normally and windows boots up just fine. The drive even works within windows.

If anybody even has a little bit of an explanation, that would be great...


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baabaa
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_ 		20. May 2005 @ 08:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You said it was a Dell machine, that is all the explanation you need..................LOL

Nah, seriously, very weird, I have never come across that........

Try disabling it as a boot device in your CMOS, does it work now?
Then
Unplug the CD's power supply and IDE, does it still do it?


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soccerboi
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_ 		20. May 2005 @ 11:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
my comp does that when I have a cd in the cheap ass dvd-rw drive i have. do you have a cd in it? There's something wrong with it. It's trying to boot from either a cd that isn't a boot cd, or from nothing.

Go into the bios and get rid of cd-rom as a boot option, see if that works. You can always enable it later
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ddp
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_ 		20. May 2005 @ 11:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
possibility drive might be going bye bye. reseat power & data cables to the drive. what is the jumper configuration on the drive?? can you try on another computer??
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