20 Most Recent Dell OptiPlex GX280 PC Desktop Questions & Answers

32 or 64 bit ?If your computer came with a motherboard disc the drivers could be on it

Click start right click on computer select properties in the left pane device manager scroll to display adapters + to expand you might see a yellow question exclamation mark ? mark ! or a red x right click select reinstall drivers windows 7 should automatically search for and find the correct driver if it doesn't you will need to download one

http://download.cnet.com/nvidia-graphics-driver-windows/3000-2108_4-10630932.html This is a WHQL release from the Release 260 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. What's new in this version: Adds support for the newly released GeForce GTX 590, GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPUsIncreases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v266.58 WHQL drivers Adds NVIDIA Update feature 32 bit

http://download.cnet.com/nvidia-graphics-driver-windows/3000-2108_4-10630939.html This is a WHQL release from the Release 260 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. What's new in this version: Adds support for the newly released GeForce GTX 590, GeForce GTX 560 Ti and GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPUs Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v266.58 WHQL drivers Adds NVIDIA Update feature 64 bit

http://download.cnet.com/ati-catalyst-software-suite/3000-2108_4-10608736.html This release for all Radeon family products updates the AMD display driver to the latest version. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability.Windows 7 32bit ATI

if these drivers are not right

http://download.cnet.com/2000-20_4.html

On the home page you should see a search tab just type in what you are looking for

tick in either windows software or the all software box

IE: Motherboard name vga driver you might have to try a few times to get it right

Hope this helps.

You can Download Audio Driver From here.


And install it for your gx 280 . If the problem persists then you have to Download Universal audio architecture from here.

Then again you have to install the above driver

Download div x codec and also update your video drivers.

http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack

That GX280 is today 14 years old and came new with XP right> still stuck at XP? if yes, doom is all there is. XP is (as you learned) a huge virus magnet.(worse every day) some were built with windows 2000, win2k, hopeless extreme... windows xp recovery or restore fails because sure the recover software is corrupted and infected too, so erasing HDD is the only path as your discovered. (page 30 in your manual at dell will fail) but not the dell disk install same page. BTW , ive never seen an XP PC not infected, ever..... so..... bingo. . ever google.? older post but and others will find this useful. There are many pitfalls to OS installs I will bullet them.

• The HDD is bad, (but if only infected it will be erased first)
• Your PC has OEM COA license from Dell for MS windows.
• Using most Microsoft install media will fail using your COA.
• W7 will fail, W10 used to work this way but not now.
• You failed to buy your DELL windows media kit long ago so is lost or gone or, never bought.
• that means you have 2 choices, buy new windows 7 or 10 or run linux, I am sure you will not wont to run free linux. Ubuntu v17
• SO buy windows 10-32b, (say) from MS.com and install it.
• During the install , pick custom or advance setup and delete all partitions. click CUSTOM now. see links below.
• then do as it says here.
• https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clean-install-Windows-10/
• then do the full install, as documented at microsoft dot com.
• end story but not all pit falls,
• Pit fall 1 is HDD is bad, fails Crystaldiskinfo , app.
• or fails Linux demo boot, run disktests and fails.
• on dead pc, I run this.
• http://www.pcdied.com/linux.html#smart
• if the C6 (198.) is not ZERO, the HDD IS NO GOOD AT ALL.
• All drives (most) end up like this, runs but has no spare sectors left and can no longer self heal itself, and is a bad HDD.
• Better is to upgrade to SSD, for sure , you will never go back to HDD ever again I promise.!!!

It's a pretty common issue with the 270 & 280. More times than not it is blown capacitors at the root of the problem. Replacing the caps is simple if you know how to solder very well & makes for an easy fix. Also, make sure you're pushing enough power through your supply.

Use your system restore disks to repair your computer since the OS is FUBAR Without those disks you are SOL. And if you never made them or lost them, now you have learned first hand why it is so important to have them. Go to the dell site and see if they have your original OS in an iso file for installation. If so that will save your sorry b---.

Do the fans run? If not the power supply is most likely bad. Hopefully it didn't trash the motherboard, memory and any installed cards. If you can't hear the hard drives spinning up, then it has to be the power supply

Paul, Hi....The Dimension 5000 is definitely an older machine, but depending on what you plan to use it for and assuming everything still works ok, the PC can still be useful. You can still get parts for the machine, especially if you go to Ebay. www.ebay.com For everyday computing like word processing or spreadsheets, it should still work ok, but will be slower than a newer machine.

Paulji786, Below are the specs you requested on these 2 systems. Optiplex GX280 Memory Type 400 & 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 400 & 533 MHzMemory connectors small form-factor computer: 2small desktop computer: 4desktop computer: 4small mini-tower computer: 4mini-tower computer: 4 Memory capacities 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB non-ECC Minimum memory dual-channel: 256 MBsingle-channel: 128 MB Maximum memory small form-factor computer: 2 GBsmall desktop computer: 4 GBdesktop computer: 4 GBsmall mini-tower computer: 4 GBmini-tower computer: 4 GB BIOS address F0000h Dimension 5000 Type 400- and 533-MHz DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM Memory connectors four Memory capacities 256 MB, 512 MB, or 1 GB non-ECC Minimum memory 256 MB Maximum memory 4 GB System clock 800-MHz data rate Memory speed Thank You, Dell-Jesse L Dell Social Media and Communities

Hi Asfand, My name is Pradeep and I work for Dell's Social Media Team. Please let us know the issue details we can check what best can be done to address your concern. Pradeep Lokesh Social Media and Community Professional Order Status: http://del.ly/61822hij Download Drivers: http://del.ly/61832hid

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Windows XP has EOL April 2014 suggest another version!

It happens because the power supply is overheats and computer goes to standby. The power supply is 160w or lower. Specially it will happen if you put more devices in such as video card or sound card. So the only solution you have is to place a small 1or2 fans toward the power supply to make it cooler. And 1 more thing the power for the fans should come from other sources.

THIS IS NORMAL. AMBER LIGHT IS SHOWING ACTIVITY ON THE HARD DRIVE

Need to Change the Motherboard, it's blown out

Go to Dell. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19

Its telling you that a cable is loose Other failure has occurred. • Ensure that the cables are properly connected to the system board from the hard drive, CD drive, and DVD drive. • Check the computer message that appears on your monitor screen. click here and go to page 5 http://cms.springbranchisd.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=CpNj5Xk679I%3D&tabid=4319&mid=9311 here is the manual to this computer so you can look inside and see the cables http://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-gx280_user%27s%20guide_en-us.pdf hope that helps

Make sure your bios is set to boot from cd and use a bootable installation cd.

im assuming your computer running windows, does it go inside windows b4 it will restart? common causes regarding this problem are corrupted operating system or over heat on your processor and incompatble softwares such as firewalls and antivirus.

I had the same thing happen on my Dell. I found the processor was bad,