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| 366389 | 2005-06-23 20:56:00 | oh for gods sake it's NOT THE BIOS........this is soooooooooo common.....people when you install, (or dell installs) xp or whoever installs xp among other things it loads up much drivers etc for the distinctive hardware of the system you are installign xp onto................if you then transfer taht drive to another pc......... the second pc most likely has quite different chipsets and hardware and will make it very difficult to run as the drive will have all the wrong drivers installed........the simpliest fix is to do a 'REPAIR' install.. now, if you are not EXACTLY sure what i'm referring to then get a tech to either lead you thru this or do it for you otherwise you'll end up losing ALL the data on the drive.............a repair install should cure the prob with starting up but you will still be left with soem issues with drivers afterwards........ |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 366390 | 2005-06-23 20:58:00 | just to re-iterate DONT FLASH THE BIOS its nothing to do with the bios that was silly advice from whoever said that.........it wouldnt' do a damn thing for the problem and it MIGHT end up with you haveing a dead motherboard which is just useless junk after a flash 'gone wrong'....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 366391 | 2005-06-24 10:46:00 | Hey a repair install sounds like a challenge. Can you provide a bit more info??? Thanks MAcian oh for gods sake it's NOT THE BIOS........this is soooooooooo common.....people when you install, (or dell installs) xp or whoever installs xp among other things it loads up much drivers etc for the distinctive hardware of the system you are installign xp onto................if you then transfer taht drive to another pc......... the second pc most likely has quite different chipsets and hardware and will make it very difficult to run as the drive will have all the wrong drivers installed........the simpliest fix is to do a 'REPAIR' install.. now, if you are not EXACTLY sure what i'm referring to then get a tech to either lead you thru this or do it for you otherwise you'll end up losing ALL the data on the drive.............a repair install should cure the prob with starting up but you will still be left with soem issues with drivers afterwards........ |
MACIAN (6176) | ||
| 366392 | 2005-06-24 11:37:00 | don't take offence but listen to drcspy - you probably need a tech to do this. no matter how much anyone here gives you all the step by steps, if you don't know the basics, then it's gonna be too hard. basically you need to do any backups, format the drive & do a fresh install of windows. only old win 95 or 98 etc could work on another pc, i've tried shifting xp around - no go. it's not worth p...ing around - get someone else to do - it may just cost $70+, but you'll get your pc going again. just like i wouldn't change the brakes on my car - even though i've done it before. good luck. | quarry (252) | ||
| 366393 | 2005-06-24 12:34:00 | repair install (www.michaelstevenstech.com) Make sure you have you data backed up somewhere first (well ideally anyway). I assume that safe mode (www.computerhope.com) is no go, before doing a reinstall. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 366394 | 2005-06-24 20:02:00 | quarry.......a repair install as shown in the link posted by gibler, (well done mate saved me a lot of typing lol) will *usually* enable the operating system to run on the new hardware.....thus a drive, with xp installed, removed from a pc can be made to function with quite different hardware by doing a 'repair' install.........just a note however, i always ghost the drive first onto usually another drive just for a safe backup in case i press the wrong button or soem other horrible thing happens like the power goes off in the middle of the repair install or whatever....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 366395 | 2005-06-24 21:57:00 | I'd still like to know what a Generic BIOS is. Having updated my brothers the other day, I went to ASUS website, carefully selected the latest one for his exact model of board. I'm jsut trying to picture doing this with some BIOS update at random. God knows what it would do, even if it did write to it. Or is there some website that says "Generic Motherboards" - BIOS for whatever model you have...one size fits all. | pctek (84) | ||
| 366396 | 2005-06-24 23:49:00 | You cant use any BIOS u want to update a BIOS . Just the one that was made specifically for the motherboard in question . If done wrong, some systems will know the difference, and say its the wrong BIOS update . And wont do anything . Or if it does flash it'll screw the setting etc, in the BIOS, or kill it completely . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366397 | 2005-06-25 00:39:00 | theres no real generic bios as such. proberly what the poster was referring to is to use the bios that the actuall mothrboard manafacture made rather than DELLs customised ones. sometimes you have to this to get around limititions of DELL bios when dell can't be bothered fixing a problem with it. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 366398 | 2005-06-25 03:09:00 | Ok heres what to do. Take the computer(not screen) to a PC repair company(yellowpages) and also take the 80GB hard drive with and all the DELL cd's that came with ur pc and the windows xp cd. Tell them to install this 80GB hard drive and to install windows xp with Service pack 2 to it. Take about 1 day. Take it in on Saturday and it'll be ready by Sunday. |
lance4k (4644) | ||
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