This 2007 year PC OLD, has many limits (CORE 2 is one)
is this windows 10? 64bit> I bet not its CORE 2 old)
I came with VISTA if MS loaded OS, or XP or RedHat Linux?
what boot menu are you talking about.? F12?
wild guess me, VISTA OS: (now zero support)
in windows, we have disk manager, do all devices show up now?
this is first, if not here, explorer can not work.
lets do the correct order:
1: bios sees my media. (good)
2: then in device manager, it sees them, if not drivers bad.
3: then Diskmanager sees the devices, and must have drive letter or next. if letters missing right click device and add one.
4: explorer (This PC) fails to find it. if above fails sure.
easy as 1,2,3,4 order, matters.
can't see CD does that mean a disk or the whole drive?
cant See HDD, is this HDD0 ,1,2, 3 or?
how many HDD do you have, and are there SSD drives there
and last what SATA ports are you using, some are limited.
here is your DELL.com support page, (12 years later still here)
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/precision-t7400/drivers
what HDD fails,
does the PC boot at all? my wild guess NO.
what OS
what OS do you want to run, that be first thing to ask on any 2007 old PC, as Windows 10 will fail here. I Bet. for sure 64bit.
SOURCE: CD ROM Boot
check in the device manager if ur cd drive is listed there or not, if not then u need to install the cd driver u canget the drivers and tthe firmware on the manufacturers website.
SOURCE: BIOS failure ??? DEll Systems OptiPlex GX270 Series
this may or may not help, try taking out the cmos battery out (looks like a watch battery) and leave for a few minutes then replace, this will reset the bios.
SOURCE: How to configure theh bios to boot to cd
Try getting into the BIOS setup routine. It may take F1 or F10 just after you start the power and hear a single beep. Then hit the Function key. Once you get into the BIOS setup, look for the setup area in which you can determine in what order your PC will look to boot. As in 1-HDD, 2-FDD, 3-CD, 4-USB Flash Memory and so on. You may have the CD boot turned off altogether, and will need to simply toggle it back on.
Good luck,
-a.
SOURCE: cant install xp to dell c400 with external cd-rom
This is how I did it, you may or may not have the ability. A basic knowledge of Dos is necessary 1) I used another laptop but you could use an adapter to use the hard drive in a regular computer. 2)boot with a windows 98 boot disk, fdisk it to a fat32 partition, make the hard drive a system boot disk (format /s c:) 3) copy the i386 folder and all its contents from a full or full oem (not branded) disk to the laptop drive, also copy smartdrv and highmem.sys from the floppy (speeds thing up dramatically) and create a config.sys file with device=highmem.sys 4)physically install the hard drive back into the C400, boot to dos run smartdrv.exe, then go to the i386 folder and type winnt.exe (enter) wooo should work. MusslaChooda Pakichooda Nathuram Godse
SOURCE: vt82c693a motherboard cant show ide hdd in award gui bios check
There may be a need to check the Jumper settings on the IDE drive, I would make sure the jumper is in the master setting and also to try to keep the cd rom connected also when you boot it up again.
Blessings,
A/V Media Guy
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