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| Thread ID: 108044 | 2010-03-11 23:00:00 | Dell wont boot after power out | NZHawk (4093) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 866257 | 2010-03-11 23:00:00 | Dell Dimension E520 was running when there was a power outage will not boot from hard drive or cd recognizes both drive but does not recognize any boot device I have tried: - changed the boot sequence to Cd then hdd: no change - replacing the cd drive - Dell diagnostics: passed any suggestions how to get it to boot |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 866258 | 2010-03-11 23:23:00 | Try resetting BIOS to failsafe defaults. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 866259 | 2010-03-11 23:35:00 | So it turns on happily and runs the startup screen but won't load any software off your drives? | Aurealis_ (7897) | ||
| 866260 | 2010-03-11 23:40:00 | Reset the bios to default setting - no change still get the message "no boot device found" and just to confirm the bios recognizes both drive (optical cd & hdd) |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 866261 | 2010-03-11 23:46:00 | Did you change the bootdisk to the hdd after? And then reconfigure the settings then save them again | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 866262 | 2010-03-11 23:53:00 | I have just changed the primary boot to the hdd. It came up with Windows boot screen, I choose safe mode and got the BSOD stop: 0x00000024 (0x00190203, ---->) |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 866263 | 2010-03-11 23:57:00 | Sounds like something on it is corrupt. I would remove it and put it in a working system. Then scan it for errors | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 866264 | 2010-03-12 00:11:00 | This sounds good but, why wouldn't it boot from the cd? | NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 866265 | 2010-03-12 00:12:00 | The error number means This stop error means that your ntfs file system is corrupt (damage in the file system, bad hard drive data, corrupt SCSI or IDE drivers or a corrupt ntfs.sys file). So as speedy advised, slave the drive and run chkdsk through it. The Power Cut may have scrambled the system files to the extent that it cant even see the Optical Boot. (Edited): To see if it actually did any hardware damage, attach another Known Good HDD, either with or without an OS on it, see if the windows CD will Boot with that HDD. If it wont then there may have been some hardware damage as well. No UPS eh! ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 866266 | 2010-03-12 00:13:00 | I have no idea. May have fried something | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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