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ChrisK2731

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September 2nd, 2005 00:00

Hard Drive Going???

I have a Dimesions XPSB733 and have recently been encountering some problems and I think it might be the harddrive going/dying.   I will sometimes get ready to go on my machine and will see a black screen with a small blue box somewhere on the screen.  Nothing can be done at this point, so I restart the computer and when I do I get to "No boot devices were found-System Halted".  I am running XP and recently upgraded memory to 512mb from 128mb.  One suggestion I found on the the Forums was to reinstall the new memory and then try to restart.  That DOES work if I do that for a little bit, but it is quite frustrating to have to do that basically every day now.  Could it be that my harddrive is going bad??  The computer is about 4 years old.  Please help!!!
  • ejn63

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    Posted September 2nd, 2005 00:00

    It bears running the Dell diagnostics on the hard drive.
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    Posted September 2nd, 2005 02:00

    dimensionck.
     
    Procedures for running the Dell diagnostics on the hard drive, should be in the owner's manual, or you could go to the hard drive's manufacturer's website and download the diagnostic software to a floppy and use that.
     
    Bev.

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    Posted September 3rd, 2005 03:00

    Thanks all.  I did the Diagnostics and it found no errors, so not sure where else to go from here.  Is it possibly a virus?  I have Norton and it's update constantly, but I was looking back at the Norton virus log and it did have a notation of a few viruses caught in the last week.  Don't know.  The problem hasn't occurred yet today.
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    Posted September 3rd, 2005 10:00

    Replace the CMOS battery next.