Dell Dimension 8200 mb issue

opera936 · 02-12-2006, 04:40 PM

P4 1.8ghz, 512mb ram, 80gb hdd. This computer was working normally before i restarted it. But after i restarted it, during the bios section it took almost a minute to detect the hardwares and add-ons. After that it said primary disk 0, primary disk1 not found, two options, f1 to reboot, f2 to enter setup utility. Finally i did found a way to get around this, to press f2 n after i got into the bios not changing anything then pressing the escape key to quite bios. then the thing boots up like it normally do, but i have to wait an minute or so and doing these steps every time i restart it. updated last month newest bios version, checked fast boot is on. Is this some sorta of motherboard issue?

jjsevdt · 02-12-2006, 04:58 PM

Being that I have the same computer and I've dabeled in switching out hard drives quite frequently it sounds like you made a change that your OS didn't like. I'm assuming you're using windows and in my experiences it doesn't like you making changes to the mother board. Though a pain in the butt a fresh install wouldn't hurt, but that's my answer to all my problems

opera936 · 02-12-2006, 05:06 PM

lol I did formateed the hdd and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows xp home. But this stil didnt' solve the problem.

opera936 · 02-16-2006, 01:23 AM

any other suggestions or do i have to replace it wit another mobo?

Salvation · 02-16-2006, 01:57 AM

reset the cmos and reformat so that might help

02-12-2006, 04:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
opera936 Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: P4 Willamette 1.8Ghz with CoolerMaster HS up to 3.8Ghz Posts: 118	Dell Dimension 8200 mb issue P4 1.8ghz, 512mb ram, 80gb hdd. This computer was working normally before i restarted it. But after i restarted it, during the bios section it took almost a minute to detect the hardwares and add-ons. After that it said primary disk 0, primary disk1 not found, two options, f1 to reboot, f2 to enter setup utility. Finally i did found a way to get around this, to press f2 n after i got into the bios not changing anything then pressing the escape key to quite bios. then the thing boots up like it normally do, but i have to wait an minute or so and doing these steps every time i restart it. updated last month newest bios version, checked fast boot is on. Is this some sorta of motherboard issue?

02-12-2006, 04:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
jjsevdt Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX Age: 25 Posts: 1,021	Being that I have the same computer and I've dabeled in switching out hard drives quite frequently it sounds like you made a change that your OS didn't like. I'm assuming you're using windows and in my experiences it doesn't like you making changes to the mother board. Though a pain in the butt a fresh install wouldn't hurt, but that's my answer to all my problems __________________ C2D E6420 @ 2.13GHz on AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA 2GB DDR2 533 1 - 80GB \| 1 - 60GB BFG Nvidia 7600GS Soundblaster Audigy PSN: JjSeVdT XBOX Live: JjSeVdT

02-16-2006, 01:57 AM	#5 (permalink)
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02-12-2006, 05:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
opera936 Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: P4 Willamette 1.8Ghz with CoolerMaster HS up to 3.8Ghz Posts: 118	lol I did formateed the hdd and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows xp home. But this stil didnt' solve the problem.

02-16-2006, 01:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
opera936 Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: P4 Willamette 1.8Ghz with CoolerMaster HS up to 3.8Ghz Posts: 118	any other suggestions or do i have to replace it wit another mobo?