I have a Dell optiplex 150 windows XP operating system. I get the dell logo screen fully loaded and that's as far as I get. I can access the setup screen. I opened the CPU in setup and it tells me that the CD Rom Drive is not installed and the hard disk drive is not installed and it doesn't say that the diskette drive is not installed. I don't have bootable floppy disk so what can I do. I'm not real tech savy but pretty familiar with computer. I know enough to be dangerous.
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Jump to Post"it tells me that the CD Rom Drive is not installed and the hard disk drive is not installed "
Uh-oh. BIOS cannot see any of your drives.
Okay, Dangerous Dan, about the first thing you would do is reset BIOS to defaults via BIOS Setup [often a BIOS exit …
Jump to PostNext step is to check the internal connections to those drives... they can become dislodged or just give poor continuity occasionally [the pins are often gold plated, but not always, to resist oxidation]. Power off at the wall, then remove the top or LHS side panel and you will see …
Jump to PostHi, yes, I saw that. I think you need to test that hdd. You could either download a bootable test application from the manufacturer's site and run it, else connect that hdd into another system and see if it is recognised.
Some test tools are found on this page:
Jump to PostHi, yes, I saw that. I think you need to test that hdd. You could either download a bootable test application from the manufacturer's site and run it, else connect that hdd into another system and see if it is recognised.
Some test tools are found on this page:
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