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laptop wont pass bios screen

  • 20-07-2010 7:23pm
    #1
    Iamhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭


    Hi all

    I have a Dell inspiron running Windows vista Service Pack 2, since last week is has gotten harder and harder to start, now it wont pass the bios page at all... ive looked at the dell website, and followed there steps but still the same,, any idea what might be wrong? it has been saying for a while that the battery will need to be replaced...


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  • #2
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    if it is still doing this without the battery then it is not that
    if you hit F12 on bootup does it offer a Diagnostics option? or if you have the original disks you can boot it from there
    run that and see if it is a hardware problem first
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  • #3
    corkcomp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    if it wont go past post / bios it wont be related to SP2 .. take out the battery - remove the power - hold power button for 10 seconds to reset cmos , reinsert battery and power and try again


  • #4
    Iamhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭Iamhere


    Thanks for the replies, the problem turned out to be a connection between the motherboard and the cd/dvd drive...


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