dell 8100

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by leonardj, Mar 7, 2008.

  1. leonardj

    leonardj Private E-2

    i have an old dell demention 8100 , its not reading the hard drive or cd rom, the lights on the back are abcd , abc are green but d is yellow . -- error comes up strike f1 to retry boot
     
    leonardj, Mar 7, 2008
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    You will need to open up the PC and check the connecting IDE cable and power cables to the Drives ( include the floppy drive as well ), unplug and re-plug in to make sure they are seeted properly, if you have a spare IDE cable that is known to be working fine test with that in the drives.

    Also make sure you have no floppy disk in the floppy drive, known at times to cause boot errors.

    Enter your BIOS and check the boot order, try changing it so the Hard Drive is the 1st boot device.


    Dells error code list
    http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dsleest/codemess.htm#diagnostic_codes

    Other Failures can be hard to trace as it maybe well be the easier options as I memtioned abpve in just being a cable issue, but could also be a sign of a failed motherboard or drive.
     
    DavidGP, Mar 7, 2008
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  3. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    as you first power on F12 will give a list of available boot devices, F2 gets you to setup (the BIOS)
     
    studiot, Mar 7, 2008
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