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Brian S
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 8:21 am: | |
This problem will challenge the best. When powering up a Dell Dimension 4500S, the PC boots to the point of the Dell logo. The progress line below the logo advances to what appears to be completion - and then the boot process stops. If I then press Cntl-Alt-Delete, the boot up process restarts at the beginning. It then stops at the same place. If I perform this process 3 times, the PC then presents an "Alert" message indicating that the previous attempts at booting failed at checkpoint [HDsk]. If I wait about a minute the system then states "Primary harddisk drive 1 not found, Secondary harddisk drive 1 not found. Strike F1 Key to continue or F2 to run setup" If I press F1, the system proceeds into a normal Windows XP bootup. Note that I am unable to process a Safe Mode boot. Attempts at doing so result in a "keyboard error". |
Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 10:45 pm: | |
Eventually the PC may not boot up at all. Your hard drive, mainboard IDE controller, and power supply might be failing. CNTL ALT DEL sends a soft reset to the system (3 times indicates a power voltage issue) HDSK boot fail harddisk drive not found indicates a failing drive or drive controller (mainboard). The keyboard error is I/O related and may just be a timing issue. |
Paul D.
Posted From: 69.226.209.24
| | Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 11:22 am: | |
I installed a new 430 watt psu and my fan sped up very much. It turns out to be an expensive lesson learned. In that short overamped time (one minute or so) I lost my hardisc or motherboard. Bummer. |
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