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Can't boot up
I have an Optiplex GX520. This morning when I tried to turn the computer on, it gets to the screen that says DELL in big letters. In the top right hand corner it says F2 Set Up and F12 Boot Menu. I tried both of those and nothing happens. In the middle of the screen it shows the bar that normally progresses with some kind of action. It gets about 90% through that and freezes. Under that bar it says BIOS Revision A03. The bottom left corner has the "energy" symbol. The bottom right says, Intel Inside, Pentium 4. At this screen it freezes.
Any thoughts/suggestions on what to do next?
TIA.
- Thanks for your response. So this is what happened. I was away all afternoon and had just left the computer turned off while I was gone. Expecting to deal with it when I returned. So I hit the power button and it came right up, no problems. I do regular backups, believe me!! But it had been at least a week. So I immediately backed up. :) And continued with my work. So, after awhile I hit the power button by mistake and the computer shut down. When I turned it back on, same thing. Mind you, when it happened earlier in the day this is not what happened. I actually rebooted through the start button earlier. So this second time, I let the computer sit for 10 minutes and turned it on again. Came up with no problem. So, obviously something is wrong in the boot up. Think I should run the repair thing?
BD_Dude
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Posted April 9th, 2007 22:00