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whats up with this?-Dell inspiron 8000

  • 02-03-2008 9:53pm
    #1
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭


    got a cheap second hand laptop off ebay. today i was going to get the driver for the wi-fi card working. i went to an internet cafe, downloaded onto my memory stick, great.
    laptop doesnt recognise the usb stick in "My Computer" but recognises it in the bottom-right hand corner. then the computer froze so i held the power button down. no big deal. now its stuck in a diagnotics menu, i cant access Windows. what now? any help would be great. thanks


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  • #2
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Could be a dodgey hard drive, bad ram ,multiple things.
    When the laptops turned on and the Dell Bios screen appears, press F12 to get to thee boot options menu. Select Diagnostics Partition. Once it boots run the full test suite on all the hardware. This might lead you to what the problem is.


  • #3
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    will do, thanks. it seems to be a decent laptop until this happened.


  • #4
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    took this into a pc services gang. they recommended to install XP for my usb problem as the windows Me on it was crap! its not crashing any more thank christ!


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