Re: [H] Dell boot up problem - saga continues

2006-06-23 Thread Ben Ruset
Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bet you'd get some resolution there. Also, Dell motherboards show up on ebay all the time. Thane Sherrington wrote: Ok, so I call Dell who tells me they have no idea where the system is failing based on where the bar stops, and can't display the POST

RE: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:34 PM 20/06/2006, Bobby Heid wrote: Also, if you can find it, in many BIOSes, there is a setting to turn the banner off (the Dell screen in your case). This lets you see what is happening during startup. According to Dell, there is no way to clear the splash screen, so there's no way

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Chris Reeves
], The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Dell boot up problem At 03:34 PM 20/06/2006, Bobby Heid wrote: Also, if you can find it, in many BIOSes, there is a setting to turn the banner off (the Dell screen in your case). This lets you see what is happening during startup. According

RE: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread FORC5
I could clear the Dell screen on my laptop in the bios FWIW At 08:59 AM 6/21/2006, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: At 03:34 PM 20/06/2006, Bobby Heid wrote: Also, if you can find it, in many BIOSes, there is a setting to turn the banner off (the Dell screen in your case). This lets you

RE: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:31 PM 21/06/2006, FORC5 wrote: I could clear the Dell screen on my laptop in the bios FWIW Unfortunately, I can't get into the BIOS. It reboots before that. T

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Time for a simple POST Card? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAIDcpc=SCHsrm=0 Harry Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:31 PM 21/06/2006, FORC5 wrote: I could clear the Dell screen on my laptop in the bios FWIW Unfortunately, I can't get into the BIOS. It

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:13 PM 21/06/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: Time for a simple POST Card? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAIDcpc=SCHsrm=0 It's a laptop, so I can't use my POST card. I took the thing apart: It has two Hynix DIMMs in it (not marked Dell, and Dell can't tell me if that's

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:13 PM 21/06/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: Time for a simple POST Card? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAIDcpc=SCHsrm=0 It's a laptop, so I can't use my POST card. Well, it was worth a shot. I took the thing apart: It has two Hynix DIMMs in

[H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-20 Thread Thane Sherrington
When a Dell is booting up, and that bar is going across the screen during POST, is there a way to find out what test is actually running in the background? I have a machine where the bar goes halfway across the the screen and then reboots. Is there a way for me to see the actual test

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-20 Thread Harry McGregor
IIRC, you might be able to hit escape key during it, another one might be tab. Can you enter the so called bios (dell really does not have anything that compaires to real motherboar's config options, of course). What about F12 on boot up? Harry Thane

RE: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-20 Thread Bobby Heid
, June 20, 2006 1:52 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Dell boot up problem IIRC, you might be able to hit escape key during it, another one might be tab. Can you enter the so called bios (dell really does not have anything that compaires to real motherboar's config options, of course

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-20 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:51 PM 20/06/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: IIRC, you might be able to hit escape key during it, another one might be tab. Can you enter the so called bios (dell really does not have anything that compaires to real motherboar's config options, of course). What about F12 on boot up? I