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My E5500 (XP) won't boot. F8 doesn't do anything. F12 does let me change BIOS. Won't boot from DELL reinstallation CD either. Goes to "Press any key to boot from CD....." then "Setup in is checking your computer's hardware configuration"... then blank screen. I have run Dell Diagnostics and it found no problems.

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  • Posted on Mar 16, 2009

SOURCE: Dell latitude d600 screen goes black during boot

ok after you have booted in safe mode do a restore to a date just before the last day it worked properly and try that restore is found here

start/programs/accessories/system tools/system restore

hope this helps

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 23, 2009

SOURCE: Dell Vostro will not boot up

During startup, just before the Windows splash screen appears, you should be able to hit the F8 key for a list of startup options. It looks from your post as if you know how to do this.

One of those choices should be to disable automatic restart on system failure. (or words very similar to that.) Use this choice to get into safe mode if you can, or into regualar windows.

Once there, go to the system restore feature and restore to a date when everything worked.

This error message is a message pointing to a piece of software (as opposed to hardware, as so many of these messages are).

The next best fix is to reinstall the OS from the ground up. this may be a major hassle, depending on the data you have on that hard drive.

Good luck
tony

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 06, 2009

SOURCE: won,t boot up

hard drive is faulty as it cannot be detected by the bios of your laptop. and/or your optical drive has no bootable cd in it. you may need to install a functioning hard drive with installed operating system for it to detect that the hard drive is bootable.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 02, 2009

SOURCE: Dell Ispriron E1505 has a display message, invalid

Try removing both memory sticks and then booting up with just one installed. The bios should notice a shift in the amount of memory and prompt you to enter the bios.

Let me know if that works.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 27, 2010

SOURCE: Dell D600 wont go into bios mode

Hi ,

if you wanted to get the bios setup you have to press Fn+F1 then you will go to the bios setup


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