Dell Precision WorkStation 650 crashed and restore CD won't load

Take a paper clip and straighten it out. Look for a pin hole on the CD tray and insert the clip to manually open the drive.

Flashing front powerlight is often a result of a faulty powersupply, try another powersully on the pc and see if the problem gets solved. I've seen a few of these cases personally.

Double check the bois to ensure you have all the Sata ports turned on. I have found in some Dell computers the only ports turned on are the ones in use when shipped from the factory.

You may have to reinstall operating system by buying a Dell cd(from amazon) that reinstalls the operating system you had on the workstation.

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Memory
Type
PC2100 DDR
Memory connectors
four
Memory capacities
256-, 512-MB, and 1-GB non-ECC or ECC
Minimum memory
256 MB
Maximum memory
4 GB
BIOS address
F0000h

need to know stop code
example:
Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

repost with stop code

Are you getting an error message saying "CD drive cannot be found"? If so, check the cable connected to your pc or swap that drive with a working cd drive.

Afterward, you have to enter the BIOS and change the BOOT order. Make the CD drive the first boot device and the HDD your second boot device. If the CD is a valid BOOTABLE Windows OS CD you will see the following option directly after the bios loads: "Press any key to boot from cd...."

Please remember that the OS CD only has the Windows Operating Software and will not provide you with the necessary drivers to run all the hardware on your PC. If it is not the original OS cd that came with your system don't even bother as you will have activate windows within 30 days and may not even allow you to enter the OS once installed until windows is activated.

The green or purple Dell CD's will boot on that system with no problem and it will not even ask you for the keys as it is a Dell OEM Windows OS CD. If you try an official Windows XP OS CD you must have the keys for it.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws450/smen/index.htm
that's the service manual for 650and 450

there may be some conflict in the jumper settings so just check the jumpers and try to connect it should detect the device ...

if you still persist the problem then just check the ide bus cable there may be some problem in that ...

replace the ide cable and try it ... make sure that the ide slot is working properly ...

regards
-Dileep