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A friend gave me their Dell Dimension XPS T450 to fix. It does not boot up at all. I thought that i could easily fix it by entering the BIOS. Dell Logo comes up, i push delete and it says "Entering Setup...", and then it just sits their. The Cd rom drive will not open either and I am out of ideas.
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10-30-2004, 03:42 PM
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this is a longshot, but have you reset the bios?
most likely the bios is totally fucked (virus?), in which case you're pretty much screwed...... if it has warranty i recomend returning it to dell, if not he/she will prolly have to buy a new mobo (will be cheaper than letting dell repair it)
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10-30-2004, 04:16 PM
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Tried resetting BIOS and its still screwed. I was thinking boot sector virus. Maybe new hdd. I'll check about that warranty.
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10-30-2004, 04:32 PM
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disconnect all unneeded parts (so you only have mobo, cpu, video card, keyboard and mouse left
if that works, then add a parts till it stops working
then replace that part with one you know for sure its workin
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10-30-2004, 04:36 PM
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I tried that. Disconnected modem and network adapter. would a new hard drive do the trick?
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10-30-2004, 04:37 PM
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im talking bout ALL unneeded parts
so:
Floppy drive
HDD
optical drive(s)
expansion cards
take out all USB devices (cept for keyboard/mouse if theyre USB)
(you could even try takin out the ram if it doesnt work with that in)
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10-30-2004, 05:27 PM
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unplug the ahrd drive and if it still doesn't go into bios then the hard drive isn't the proiblem...
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10-30-2004, 07:11 PM
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What graphics card is being used? Is there an onboard one as well?
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