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Knober

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January 25th, 2008 22:00

Computer Crashed??????????????

Hi, I have a XPS 600 that won't do anything?. When I turn it on th dell logo appears & it seems to be loading then I get a message saying:

Floppy diskette seek failure,

Strike the F1key to continue, F2 to run set up.

When I press the F1 key NOTHING happens apart from the cursor flashing top left hand corner of the screen.

Please HELP!!!!!

Many Thanks

Pete

P.S I can't seem to find any disc's that came with the system????

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itskrom
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Posted January 25th, 2008 23:00
sounds like the floppy drive has blown.

Press f2 and enter the bios, there should be something in there along the lines of "halt on errors" it often has keyboard/ floppy try turning that off. tell me how you get on.
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exponential
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Posted January 26th, 2008 01:00
You probably don't even have a floppy. If you don't go into the bios and make sure that the floppy option is disabled.
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Knober
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Posted January 26th, 2008 07:00
Hi

thanks for the reply, but it does not have a floppy drive. Any other ideas??

pete
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Knober
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Posted January 26th, 2008 07:00
Hi,

thanks for the reply, the floppy is now diabled but the screen goes black with the cursor still blinking in the top left hand corner.

Any more ideas?

thanks

pete
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itskrom
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Posted January 26th, 2008 11:00
In the bios is there an option for boot order, use the keys to move the floppy seek beyond/after the hardrive.?
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Posted January 26th, 2008 23:00
Did it ever boot correctly? If so, what changed from when it worked until it didn't? When it is booting hit F12 to bring up the Boot Menu and select the hard drive. If that doesn't work, try inserting a bootable CD like the restore disk.