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Originally posted by Melodi@May 5 2005, 09:16 PM
I've taken temporary custody of a Dell Dimension 4300 P4. When it starts up it says press F1 for reboot or F2 to enter set up, neither option is viable. BIOS is there and it outlines the floppy, CD drive and Hard drive, but the entries of boot sequence are gone. If you use F12 to go into the boot sequence and choose any one of the drives to boot to, it won't boot to any of them. I tried a bootable floppy and it would not even boot to that. The message when you first start up says Dell did not detect the eide disk drive and blah blah blah. I put in a new CMOS battery and it detected that the cell was low on voltage and it wiped out the date and time, but it still did not boot the system, anyone got any ideas?
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Do you have a spare hard drive you could throw in as a replacement for a test to see if it will boot.