To Sittas - laptop CD drives are often brand and model specific, the location and type of connector can vary between brands. Also many brands have proprietary chipsets on motherboard or optical...

There is an adapter available to adapt a 2.5" ide drive to 3.5" it has the standard ide pin out and a plug in for a standard molex thes typically run under $10US.

Solutions :

There should be a port on the computer to hook up an external monitor to. This in combination with fn - f5 will give display on the external monitor.

You can do the install on...

No, it is very unlikely that it will have been damaged, mostly due to it not havning ever been powered on for any long periods of time.

It is possible, unfortunately in order to flash the BIOS you will need a CPU in the board, of course this only requires any compatible CPU if you can obtain one. Most small shops would be willing to...

10 Flashes generally means an issue with memory or motherboard.

Your best troubleshooting will be to use one memory module in one slot and then the other slot testing the module and slots in this...

PCFresh has the right info there, although on many newer boards you may also find a set of three pins together with a little clip (jumper) covering two of them and a label "CMOS" by it. This is the...

Yeah, you might verify that the CPU and MB are compatible. Sometimes it isn't lidted really clearly in documentation and you may need to send a msg to the manufacturer of the MB to be 100% but if...

Try powering on with various memory configurations, remove all, only one in each of the slots, and trying the diffferent memory in each of them This will eliminate the idea of a bad memory SODIMM or...

Raj,

Yes, PCI slot IDE controller cards are what I am refering to. Although Dell has a number of idiosyncracies to there BIOS and machines I don't recall having issue with adding IDE controller...

Well, assuming that the Power supply is still good then this is going to be a failed motherboard then. Intel has a 3 year warranty on US sales of motherboards so you may, depending on when you...

This may be part of the series of Dell that you have to make some changes in BIOS in order to get it to recognize hard drives. Look through your BIOS settings and see if there are settings for your...

I had a similar issue with my personal computer using OCZ 6400 memory, I was able to resolve it 100% by manually setting memory timings in BIOS, I recommend trying that, if the full timings aren't...

Actually, I would encourage you to read the info at the link and you will see that the symptoms are the same as what you are experiencing. I encourage anyone with these problems to bring pressure on...

Before you go much farther you might consider testing the hard drive using Seatools or the like, I'd hate for you to get everything up and going only to find the hard drive is failing. As for advice...

Hi All, OK I think I'm going to have to create a special thread for all of the HP / Compaq people out there with this problem.

Unfortunately for you the HP Pavillion DV2000 / DV6000 / DV9000 which...

Hi All, OK I think I'm going to have to create a special thread for all of the HP / Compaq people out there with this problem.

Unfortunately for you the HP Pavillion DV2000 / DV6000 / DV9000 which...

On a Dell when it is first starting up it should be either f2, f10 or delete key. This will get you into a screen with test that allows you to navigate through it using either arrows, +/- or pg up...

You might note the computer IP for that unit and if he comes back with a similar issue in the near future try to ping it from another computer, this could be a failing NIC. When this happens on a...

OK sounds like you found BIOS, see if in the different page in BIOS is has a hardware monitoring or event logging area and note anything in there.

As for event log in Windows this is the path:
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OK seeya when you get back.

This thread should probably be moved to the hardware section under dead machine that being said lets give you a start at help.

It sounds like a possible bad hard drive, so you should probably try...

Looks like you have some type of spyware / malware. You should probably start by backing up anything important to another source, this is a preventive measure in case what is on the computer is more...

OK, at this point we can probably rule out the LCD as the primary cause of failure and the Inverter - the device that powers the high voltage lamp. The problem for both of you though is that the...

If you have an external monitor you might try hooking it up to see if you get an external display. Also you said nothing so I wonder if you get any BIOS screens or anything at all at at startup.

It looks like any standard f-connector antenna should work, so any coaxial cable or set of rabbit ear antenna from a department / superstore should work.

NP, we all live our lives in our time zones, I'm just trying to see if there may be another anything to consider after these things.

The first thing I would advise is to remove everything, memory, wireless card, optical drive, hard drive and and other things attached to the computer and try a restart. At this point you will...

OK we'll be around to help, post us on if it fixes it or not and be sure to mark thread solved at the end - it helps other people in similar circumstances to sometime be able to see a completed...

Matt did you try the BIOS update option?

Well at this point it is most likely that you a bad hard drive, we can try a recovery of the drive but I don't think it will work at all. After that the choices you have are is you want to first try...

Data cable - the wide cable that connects between the drive and the motherboard

Optical Drive - CD or DVD drive using a laser and lens to read data

Jumper - a small block that spans 2 or more...

Yeah possible on the Power supply, as for the driver conflict that is hardware conflict, and we may be able to get a much better picture of that with the event logs (I assumed no ! in device...

I noticed you said you have looked into BIOS but I didn't note you saying you have done a BIOS update. If you haven't updated the BIOS for the board that my be the solution.

Random shut downs are a bit difficult to track down but generally have to do with bad data of some form or another. This is most often caused by one of these things:

Bad Memory
Corrupted Hard...

Sounds like you have already done 90% of what you need to. This is most likely a failed video card, reseating the video card and checking the BIOS settings for the video card are the only thing I...

OK, since you have changed boot priority and it isn't seeing the Hard drive - which is otherwise detected in BIOS, you likely have a problem with a cable, a controller or the hard drive. The cable...

At this point you should probably check the settings on the drives. Occasionally if the Master / Slave settings are off or set to cable select it can have an impact on things. You may also want to...

Here are the specs on that board, it should be able to support up to 2GB of 133 mem

Intel Desktop Board D845GLLY - motherboard - micro ATX - i845GL
General
MPN: BOXD845GLLY, KD845GLLYLPAK10,...

As a further item I have just stumbled across a new program involving this series of laptop as well as the HP Pavillion DV2000/ DV6000 / DV9000 and the Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 series.
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