Dell problem

[xpuser357]

GX60 when you turn it on all lights go green and bios stirs up
goes to intel mac address
You hit escape and you get
PXE-MOF Exiting intel boot agent
then y8y8 but your 8 is sideways
PXE-E53 no boot file name received
then blinking cursor
And that cursor does not move and all action stops until you press power button and turn it off then restart back to same place.

[Guts3d]

Check the capacitors on the motherboard, the last time I saw something like this was a year ago and the caps all looked like they went through a war. If they look good, I'd look into flashing the BIOS.

[futuretech]

Sounds like dead hard drive or ide cable. The motherboard supports booting via network hence the PXE boot. When it times out usually it will continue and boot from hard drive.
You can try getting into BIOS setup and ensure its seeing the hard drive and check boot order to ensure hard drive is first or second option.

[Ferrit]

Agreed its likely another dead maxtor harddrive
SHould be a harddrive diagnostics in the bios

[slgrieb]

I tend to lean toward a dead hard drive as causing the system to hang during boot, but it might be a damaged BIOS. I'd try entering the setup menu and confirm that the hd is recognized in BIOS, selected as a boot device, etc. Also a good time to give the the motherboard a visual inspection per Guts3d. If none of the above resolve the issue, than either run Dell's drive diagnostics or boot from a CD and run diagnostics.

[Zonie]

FYI, had a Dell from a client doing the same thing. After diagnostics drive was good, slaved to another PC able to access it just fine. Scanned for all sorts of vius and rootkits, just fine. I was able to back up the data and realized the hard drive had a boot virus. Formated drive both low level and standard and was able to reinstall OS and backup and running.

[MobilePCPhysician]

The Dell I had with that problem, we removed the battery, and reset the cmos. Re-installed the battery, powered it on, and setup the cmos. Worked fine.

[xpuser357]

It is a 500 gig western digital I just installed a week ago. I used acronis and transfered her 80 gig seagate to WD. I put seagate back and it boots.
Must be pretty fluffed up by viruses, Heh the woman downloads movies
using Pirate bay, MY Niece. Once I clean that drive No downloading.

[MobilePCPhysician]

Put the 500 gig back in. Does the bios see the drive? If so, put the xp cd in and boot to the recovery console. Type fixboot c: and press enter. Exit out of recovery console and reboot.

[xpuser357]

Thanks for the info. GX60 would only give me a blinking curser I had gone to boot order and put it to harddrive. That is when it just stopped with blinking curser. Took it out and put it in my computer and was using life guard tools
cdrom version. Told me my drive failed. I pulled drive and used ultra cable adapter and formatted drive. placed it back in the Dell and ran life guard tools it found it and I wrote zero`s to it and then ran the XP pro disk
installed all is good