dell pc won't boot

[aabbiill]

:sad:My Dell pc will not boot.I've tried two days now.I turned it off to reboot because it would not loadup my mouse.Now it starts to boot but stops right in the middle of the page..I have Win2K on it. System Model OPTIPLEX GX100.I don't know what happened.I need help.It has all my games I like to play on it.

[photolady]

but stops right in the middle of the page. What page?

[aabbiill]

What page?

The boot page that shows all the configurations on the pc about the system.It's the frist page that comes on when you push the power button.

[Djinni]

Did you allready try to boot the secrued mode?..dose it work..?

[aabbiill]

Did you allready try to boot the secrued mode?..dose it work..?No,I don't known anything about a secured mode. How do do that?

[photolady]

That's not a page, it's a screen. Only browsers have pages, as do word documents. Now his referral to secured mode, is actually Safe Mode. Restart the computer as it begins booting up start tapping the F8 key, you should eventually get a boot menu to chose options on how windows boots up. One of those options is Safe Mode. Select it by using your arrow keys to highlight that entry and then press Enter. If the computer works ok in Safe Mode, then it's a software/driver problem. If it does not allow you to go to Safe Mode, then most likely it's a hardware problem.

[aabbiill]

That's not a page, it's a screen. Only browsers have pages, as do word documents. Now his referral to secured mode, is actually Safe Mode. Restart the computer as it begins booting up start tapping the F8 key, you should eventually get a boot menu to chose options on how windows boots up. One of those options is Safe Mode. Select it by using your arrow keys to highlight that entry and then press Enter. If the computer works ok in Safe Mode, then it's a software/driver problem. If it does not allow you to go to Safe Mode, then most likely it's a hardware problem.
Thanks for your reply.I tried all that before I made my frist post.But I will try it again and get back to you.[?]Is there anyway I can get all the games and everything else loaded into another pc? I have another pc with 19 gigs. I know it can hold all of the 9 gigs on the Dell. The Dell is only half full,about 4 gigs.

[photolady]

No, games and programs have to reloaded via cds or other media that was provided via the games or programs. The only thing you can save are your documents, photos, music and/or videos.
Neither can you transfer the operating system unless it was a standalone and not an OEM disk.

[aabbiill]

I got the Dell to boot by unplugging it for two days and letting it sit.But,it will sometimes boot,and if I hook up the modem for the internet it closes the page and says something about the plug and play configuration.How do I redo the confirguration so as not to have this problem anymore..And when I shut down to reboot, it will not reboot.I have to unplug and wait again.I tried to reinstall W2k to fix it, but it didnot work.

[photolady]

Anytime a computer won't boot, but letting it sit for awhile, then it will boot, the power supply is dying. Time for a new one.

[aabbiill]

This is all the infor for the Dell:Microssft Win2000k Pro,Version 5.0.2195,System Model OptiPlexGX 100,System Type x86-Based PC,Procesor X86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6,Genuine Intel ~793,Bios Verison Phoenix ROM Bios Verision 1.10 A09,Wins.Directory C:WINNT,Total Physical Memory 193,768 KB,Avail. Physical Memory 117,384 KB,Total Virtul Memory 663,920 KB,Avail. Virtual Memory 514,972 KB,Page File Space 470,152 KB.Intel Pentium III,Memory190 MB RAM,.Now ,Can you recommand a good power supply.

[photolady]

Your Dell has Proprietary products in it. The only power supply you'll be able to use is one made specifically for Dell Optiplex computers.

[aabbiill]

I found a power supply,just got it in an it works.Thanks.This is a great site.

[aabbiill]

Old topic but new boot problem after 4 days with the new power supply.I get this error when trying to boot my computer now, plus it's a blue screen. ***STOP: 0x00007B,(0x8167BDB0,0xc0000032,0X00000000,0x00000 007 INACCESS_BOOT_DEVICE If this is the frist time you've seen this Stop error screen,restart your computer.If this screen appears again,follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer.Rmove any newly installed hard drives, or hard drive controllers.Check your hard drive to make sureit it properly configured and terminated.Run CHKDSK/F to check for hard drive corruption,then restart your computer.Refer to your GETTING STARTED manual for more information on troubleshooting Stop errors. I've done all that plus I tried safe mode and all the rest of what's on that page.Putting the old power supply back is getting me the same error.I even tried a boot floopy I had made before I started having any problems with the computer at all.But nothing I tried worked..Hope I can get this solved.

[aabbiill]

Old topic but new boot problem after 4 days with the new power supply.I get this error when trying to boot my computer now, plus it's a blue screen. ***STOP: 0x00007B,(0x8167BDB0,0xc0000032,0X00000000,0x00000 007 INACCESS_BOOT_DEVICE If this is the frist time you've seen this Stop error screen,restart your computer.If this screen appears again,follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer.Rmove any newly installed hard drives, or hard drive controllers.Check your hard drive to make sureit it properly configured and terminated.Run CHKDSK/F to check for hard drive corruption,then restart your computer.Refer to your GETTING STARTED manual for more information on troubleshooting Stop errors. I've done all that plus I tried safe mode and all the rest of what's on that page.Putting the old power supply back is getting me the same error.I even tried a boot floopy I had made before I started having any problems with the computer at all.But nothing I tried worked..Hope I can get this solved.I failed to mention that befroe the problem started I done disk cleanup andd eleted all the files to be cleaned including old compressed files.I also done defragment. After defragment I got a blank screen so I shut down to reboot and that's when the problem started. Is there any hope or do I just put it in the dumpster?

[photolady]

Go back and try chkdsk /r if that doesn't work then a repair might.

[aabbiill]

cannot get into safe mode command prompt. none of the things in safe mode setup works. computer is giving same message as before. any way that i can do a reinstall of windows 2000 pro.

[photolady]

Not sure why you're trying to get into safe mode command prompt, you need the Windows 2000 pro disk to run chkdsk /r.

If you have windows 2000 on cd, then certainly you can reinstall it.

[aabbiill]

I didn't understand the reply until now.but I did do a reinstall and I'm back up and running.almost everthing was deleted,but I like it this way.now I had 7 whole gigs .thanks a lot.this site is GREAT.

[photolady]

You're welcome. One question though, when you reinstalled w2k, did you delete the partition first?

[aabbiill]

You're welcome. One question though, when you reinstalled w2k, did you delete the partition first?yes.and it had two partitions (C&D).It's working good,I have not been on the internet with it yet.If theres any more problems I'll get back to you with it.

[aabbiill]

same thing only worst.everything was great sp4 done and everything.I was playing luxor 2 and when I clicked start for the next level I got a blank screen. I shut it down and rebooted to only to get f1 to try to reboot, f2 for utilities setup.I tried to reinstall W2K but I get the message there is no drivers install.I tried everything that helped the last time.but no good.I'm at my daughters' house now but :sad:I'll be home in a few hours to try again.hope you can help.

[photolady]

The only thing it could be now is either bad ram or a bad harddrive. More likely the harddrive is going out because usually this kind of problem is, install OS becomes corrupt and is usually related to harddrive.

If you know what the brand name is on the drive you can test with their diagnostic software.

[aabbiill]

It is a 1991 so I think it's seen it's better days. I got it second hand for $20.00.So for $20.00 for six months ain't bad.I think I'll do away with it .It's cost more to fix it than I paid for it.