I have an old Dell at home and was using the other day. I can't remember if I did a RESTART or just shut it off for a few minutes and then started it backup. Either way it only comes on as far as the DELL screen.
I have tried getting into the SETUP and can't even get there. When it starts up and gets to the screen that says ENTER SETUP - PUSH DELETE and I hit the delete key, it says that it is entering SETUP but it then just stays there...never going any farther. I have even left it that way for over an hour.
I then unhooked that hard drive and hooked up another and it does the exact same thing.
[ January 03, 2008, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Laura Butler ]
Posted by Jonathan Harvey (Member # 6580) on :
Mine did that when I installed a new hard drive, but it wasn't the hard drive it was the software for the hard drive that did it.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
get out your trusty boot disk,,
OR try booting with F8.. into safe mode.
Posted by Bill Cosharek (Member # 1274) on :
Have you checked the Battery on the Motherboard? It powers the Bios & keeps the Day/Clock running on time. When you had the computer up & running, did you happen to notice if it was keeping the correct time? (& day?)
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Curtis, I've F8-ed until the cows come home. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
I know what the BIOS is but I don't know if its stored on the HD or in another spot separate from the HD, like a chip or something. Could I haven't gotten a virus in the BIOS? The reason that I had the extra HD available was because it had been on Garry's computer and a few months ago he couldn't get it to boot. When I installed it on mine as a SLAVE I was able to view it. I then unhooked my HD leaving just his, it booted fine. I was wondering if it was possible to have had a virus there somewhere laying dormat, waiting to be activated and got into my BIOS.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
