Hey all good folks at Dani Web !!!
I have a Dell Optiplex GX240, vertical standing desktop machine. Right now it only has 256 MB RAM and a 2.0GHz proc.
I bought the machine as is. It came with everything original but it was missing a hard drive. I put a hard drive that I had from my other GX240 in it. When I pluged it in and turned it on I got a message on a black screen that said...." strike F1 to try reboot, F2 for setup utility" . BIOS said that it didn't even see the hard drive. So, I checked my data and power cables and tried again.....same thing. I tried a total of 3 data cables and still got the same message. I checked and made sure the drive was getting power and it is so I figured that I'd try to hook up the data cable from my cd player to the data port on the hard disk and it worked ! No errors and the computer loaded as it should have, BUT, now I won't have a cd player. I want to see whats wrong with the hook up at the motherbaord where the hard drive hooks up but I don't know what to check.
Any help is very much appreciated !!!
I've very new at "hardware" so please be patient with me.
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Jump to Posti take it the system is pretty old with 256mb ram and all. Give it a thorough clean, specially the data ports on the board itself for any dust and see if that works.
Raj
Jump to PostAlso wat happens when you connect the cd player data cable in the hard disk slot on the mobo does the cd player cable vanishes as well in bios???
It could be a faulty slot, which could be a result of too much pressure while connecting the cables basically …
Jump to PostThis 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 storage devices and that they match what you have installed, …
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