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11th Feb 2009, 05:18
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When i start window, I see, to continu press F2 to setup press F12. It move further if i press F2.
Window works ok. It' DELL OPIPLEX 240. Please help to sort it out.  massivee
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11th Feb 2009, 05:21
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What is the rest of the error message, there is a reason the BIOS is being halted and needs a key input.
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12th Feb 2009, 03:13
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Dear Dave Hybrid , Thanks for help. rest of the error message is .
PRIMARY HARD DISK DRIVE 1 NOT FOUND SECONDRY HARD DISK DIVE 1 NOT FOUND STRIKE THE F1 KEY TO CONTINUE, F2 TO RUN THE SET UP This is the complete massage. (ofter pressing F1, it is ok massivee |
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12th Feb 2009, 03:23
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Sounds like your hard drives have failed, press F2 to enter setup and find the settings for your drives under one of the tabs.
The drives should show up, showing their model numbers in the relevent fields, probably next to and in the same area as your CD\DVD drives. If they do not show up and they are set to auto detect then they are possibly faulty, which is odd if you have 2 drives as both going bad at the same time is unusual. Unless you only have 1 hard drive? |
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12th Feb 2009, 05:46
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How old is the computer? It looks as though it isn't auto-detecting the drives. Could the CMOS battery have failed?
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13th Feb 2009, 02:34
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Recently I need to change CSMOS battery, because on every start i used to see that date and time changed. ofter change of battery it is ok.
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17th Feb 2009, 01:41
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I was about to post same error,i have an optiplex g270 doing the same thing,I have all my dell drivers and no error/cautions in device manager.Ihave entered setup and cmos is recognizing drives w/ no prob.boot sequence is correct and still get that nag.I BET YOU HAVE ANOTHER HARDDRIVE IN YOURS OR YOU HAVE REFORMATTED ORIGINAL LOSING YOUR RECOVERY PARTITION.If im right the only way to fix is to run the original recovery cd's in the machine.
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17th Feb 2009, 01:44
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oh yeah does your pc kinda hang in startup before the damn continue on error?and my cmos i have quickboot enabled,what a joke.I love dell stuff but when you put xp on them you better have another pc there on standby or have all your drivers for usually they will have 4-8 missing device drivers after install!
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