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My Dell 531S will not boot past the BIOS (Dell logo) screen. At first I thought it was the hard drive, since it wasn't recognizing anything connected to SATA port 1. Since then I have purchased a new hard drive and acquired a corporate version on Windows XP (my computer had Vista before, but the recovery partition is inaccessible) but the DVDROM drive isn't accessing the disk. I followed the steps on Dell's troubleshooting page and disconnected my RAM and hard drive, reseating everything carefully and trying again, but no results. Another problem I noticed is the BIOS setup screen inststs on reading a 1.44 floppy drive (I don't have one) and the computer won't give the option to go to setup with the floppy drive disabled. Any thoughts?

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    The SATA ports are working. On the thought that either a port or cable were not working, I switched ports for the hard drive

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It seems like you have multiple problems:

1. DVD-ROM drive not accessing the disk

2. unable to "disable" the "floppy" drive in BIOS SETUP

3. not recognizing anything connected to SATA1 port

It's time to take your computer to a qualified technician, for professional trouble-shooting.

Is your DELL computer still under warranty? If so, exercise the warranty.

Or, maybe you should just remove the "new" disk-drive, the RAM, the DVD-drive, and then responsibly "recycle" the old computer, and purchase a brand-new system, repurposing the disk/RAM/DVD components.

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