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among everything else going on - I've got a Dimension E310 I'm working on for a friend that I'm thinking the motherboard is gone at this point. He only told me it wouldn't boot up at all. If I can't fix it on the cheap, they'll just be without a computer.
My first boot it went into XP and blue screened almost immediately with a irql_not_less_or_equal. Tried a re-boot and it just hangs at the initial Dell screen at about 90% with no keyboard response.
Opened up the case, everything was clogged with 3 years worth of dust. CPU fan was making a loud racket also. Cleaned it out, including removing the CPU heatsink and some new arctic silver. (This did take care of the fan noise.)
Still no boot, moved the single stick of RAM to 2nd slot, no go - tried a new stick, still no go. Left the new RAM in the machine.
Cleared CMOS, and this gets me to a screen saying I needed to run setup with option to continue or go into setup.
At this point, continued to a safe mode, manually cleared out a couple of viruses and all the junk they had loading at startup.
Reboot, stuck on first screen at 90% again.
At this point this is where it sits. I can clear CMOS and it will give me those two options only about 40% of the time. 60% I'm still stuck on that first screen.
If I choose to continue, I'm in XP, can browse the web, play around for awhile, doesn't appear to be any problem at all.
On reboot, does not make it past that first screen again.
If I go into setup, upon exiting, I'm right back at the same place, stuck on the first screen. The CMOS is not keeping the time and the error log shows CMOS, checksum and battery failure errors. I have now tried changing the battery out with 2 known working batteries, no help.
Any ideas, or do I teach 'em how to clear the CMOS every time they want to boot the machine and then set the clock.
My first boot it went into XP and blue screened almost immediately with a irql_not_less_or_equal. Tried a re-boot and it just hangs at the initial Dell screen at about 90% with no keyboard response.
Opened up the case, everything was clogged with 3 years worth of dust. CPU fan was making a loud racket also. Cleaned it out, including removing the CPU heatsink and some new arctic silver. (This did take care of the fan noise.)
Still no boot, moved the single stick of RAM to 2nd slot, no go - tried a new stick, still no go. Left the new RAM in the machine.
Cleared CMOS, and this gets me to a screen saying I needed to run setup with option to continue or go into setup.
At this point, continued to a safe mode, manually cleared out a couple of viruses and all the junk they had loading at startup.
Reboot, stuck on first screen at 90% again.
At this point this is where it sits. I can clear CMOS and it will give me those two options only about 40% of the time. 60% I'm still stuck on that first screen.
If I choose to continue, I'm in XP, can browse the web, play around for awhile, doesn't appear to be any problem at all.
On reboot, does not make it past that first screen again.
If I go into setup, upon exiting, I'm right back at the same place, stuck on the first screen. The CMOS is not keeping the time and the error log shows CMOS, checksum and battery failure errors. I have now tried changing the battery out with 2 known working batteries, no help.
Any ideas, or do I teach 'em how to clear the CMOS every time they want to boot the machine and then set the clock.