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March 18th, 2004, 11:19 PM
#1
inspiron 3800 problem
When I try to start laptop with wind 98 se the machine will start "dell" screen and status bar will only load to about 80% and stops; I have reseated memery and reseated hard drive and basically all components that could be removed and reseated as dell stated that this problem happens on laptops (bad seats on components. I have been told it could be a bad sector in hard drive. The machine did boot once for me and ran fine and on next boot up it failed . Any help would be appreciated.
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March 19th, 2004, 04:30 AM
#2
 Originally Posted by dqdave1
When I try to start laptop with wind 98 se the machine will start "dell" screen and status bar will only load to about 80% and stops; I have reseated memery and reseated hard drive and basically all components that could be removed and reseated as dell stated that this problem happens on laptops (bad seats on components. I have been told it could be a bad sector in hard drive. The machine did boot once for me and ran fine and on next boot up it failed . Any help would be appreciated.
will it boot in safe mode?
try running scandisk c: from either your win 9x cd rom or from a c prompt , u may want to do a full surface scan ,
try reloading win 9x over the top of the orig settup.
u may have a corrupted file sys.
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March 19th, 2004, 11:36 AM
#3
Originally Posted by freddy
will it boot in safe mode?
try running scandisk c: from either your win 9x cd rom or from a c prompt , u may want to do a full surface scan ,
try reloading win 9x over the top of the orig settup.
u may have a corrupted file sys.
I cannot get to the boot stage; so I cannot do anything or check anything; It will not get to the "boot" stage . So now what?
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March 19th, 2004, 11:51 AM
#4
Originally Posted by dqdave1
I cannot get to the boot stage; so I cannot do anything or check anything; It will not get to the "boot" stage . So now what?
update;p this is what has been tried with no results; removed hard drive and tarted laptop; the status bar went to same spot(80%) and stopped so does this mean hard drive ok? Also removed one memory slot; restarted and it said memory had changed and sat there; restarted again and it went to the 80% mark again; tried other memery slot removed and it did exact same thing; does this mean memery is ok? HELP, HELP!!!
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March 19th, 2004, 12:01 PM
#5
Registered User
Can you boot to a floppy? Try fdisk /mbr at the a prompt.
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March 19th, 2004, 10:08 PM
#6
Originally Posted by DocPC
Can you boot to a floppy? Try fdisk /mbr at the a prompt.
No I can not boot to floppy or anything; never gets to boot mode
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March 21st, 2004, 12:59 PM
#7
Driver Terrier
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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