My hard drive's windows files have become corrupt and I need the files on it, so I purchased a new hard drive. I can't seem to install Windows XP Home onto the new hard drive. Everything goes fine, but then I get an error message saying it can't install the product catalogs. Is this because I'm using a reinstall CD that was provided by Dell.
View 14 RepliesSometimes this computer will start, sometimes it wont When it doesnt, the On button just flashes orange, when it should be solid green. Sometimes it will start up and get to the log on screen and then just shut down and flash orange. It works fine when it does turn on. Iv been through the dell help and support stuff and that doesnt help
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Installed a brand new hard drive and still no luck just says can not locate a hard drive to install windows on, done a check in the bios on the hard drive and it says it's fine but can not see it on the fresh install.
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 1.6ghz 1gb RAM with XP Pro on it for several years now. It has many programs installed on it. I purchased a faster used Dell Dimension 8400 3.6ghz hyperthreading 3gb RAM with XP Pro on it.My question is simple. My Dimension 2400 has an IDE hard drive and the 8400 has SATA. Rather than spend days re-installing and tweaking all of the programs on the 8400 I tried the following. I used Acronis Easy Migrate 7 to Image the IDE hard drive to the SATA hard drive and installed it into the 8400. It would not boot, I tried a repair install, then while booting I get a blue screen stop Error 0x0000007B. What do I have to do to fix this so it will boot?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I fire up my dell the fan turns on full blast and there is a series of 6 beeps. Not sure what to do.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI get a blue screen when I boot up my Dell Dimension 8400 (XP Home Edition). The message indicates that it is a registry error. I have not added any new hardware or software or any drivers recently. I can not start in safe mode. I have run windows XP home edition setup from the Dell XP installation disc. when I select either enter to setup windows XP or R to repair using the Recovery Console, I do not ger very far before I again get the blue screen message.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy Dell was running perfectly. I turned it off for a couple of months. When I turned it back on nothing at all happens. A friend said it could be the power supply. I looked inside and found a lot of dust. Don't know what the internal power supply looks like.
View 1 Replies View RelatedStarting a few days ago my Desktop would freeze at the Dell boot up screen.. Id have to turn it off then back on to get anywhere.. The 1st time this happen I turned it off an back on twice an got through.. I didnt think much of it.. Today I was working on the computer and everything just froze At that very moment the last thing i did was change the screen saver to none.. then it all froze.. This time when booting up it jus kept freezing i didnt think i was going to be able to get through but on pwoer up i heard a beep an got an error saying it was having trouble booting up at checkpoint[Ithr]
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen i start up my dell 8400 it goes straight to the black screen stating windows did not shut down properly and asks to start in normal safe mode so on... no matter which option i choose it goes straight to the blue screen stating the physical dump of memory how can i fix this problem
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell Dimension 8400 running windows xp home. 2.99GHZ processor and 58 GB free space left. My problem: My computer automatically goes into hibernation mode and will not start up again for at least 5-10 minutes after. It gives no warning whatsoever when this happens. I'm risking it happening right now. I have the computer set to stay on at all times. All power options are set to "never" turn off.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell dimension 8400 running XP. Error on startup reads:checking file system on C:The type of the file system is NTFS The volume is dirt CHKDSK goes through all 3 stages and completes them. The last thing it says is 'Usn Journal verification completed'.But nothing else will respond. I have pulled the plug and started in safe mode, same thing happens or it will run a bunch of dos commands and stop with no result.I have read lots of other threads but I can't find the same exact problem. I can't get to a dos prompt (i think) to type in some of the commands I read about.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI would like to upgrade my Dell 8400's graphic card.I am not a gamer.I just purchased a 21" HP widescreen monitor that is capable of 1920x1080 to replace the original (4:3 aspect ratio)Dell monitor that came with the computer.I just want a good quality,name-brand card that will provide the 1920x1080 resolution for the new monitor. The card that came with the computer is not capable of that resolution. My operating system is Windows XP.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI got a used Dell Demension 8400, XP Home installed (OEM). I own a copy of XP Home which is not installed on any other machine, I tried updating drilling down through using regedit...it does take the product key. What might I be doing wrong? Thanks.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy dad's Dell 8400 is having a series of issues. He posted a similar thread in the Hardware forum, but it's possible it might be more than hardware, so checking here to see if ya'll might have some suggestions (as I know this forum gets more visibility and he's getting anxious).He turned on the computer last night to have it not booting up at all. It gave a series of 4 beeps followed by 2 beeps, and then wouldn't do anything after that. He tried multiple times, with one or two of them bring him to the BSD asking to boot in safe mode or system restore.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI currently have xp pro loaded on my computer but it was a bad install and i want to install xp home which i like a bit more. When i go to install xp home, it won't let me because it automatically assumes i want to upgrade and i can't choose a clean install. I can't boot from my cd rom so i can't go through bios.
View 10 Replies View RelatedA friend of mined needed a clean install for his Dell Dimension 2400. The restore
disc is very different as it wants to know what partition you want to put it on. There was no other choices.So I believe that we destroyed the restore partition without knowing it had one.If I buy a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OEM Version will it work to solve this problem? TigerDirect sells a copy. I need the full disc and not an upgrade. But will we have drivers problems. He does have other disc with his Dell which one says its for drivers but in reality its just disc of Docs. And one that does actually install the modem as he's still on dialup.Can I wipe his hard-drive clean and install an OEM version of Home Edition and will things work?A little out of pocket money is easier then suffering
through trying to get it done.
I have a Dell Dimension 5150, i've just done a re-install of XP as I was sick of it playing up - something was wrong but I couldn't figure it out. Anyway, Now I can't get anything to work cause I have no drivers, I mainly need the ethernet driver. Dell's website has NOTHING on it, there is only 1 download for this machine and it is for some stupid dell application. No drivers. I've looked all over the net
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI just tried to install a new hard drive into a dell dimension 8100. It appears the motherboard is shot and so I am just going to use this new hard drive for storagew and I just want to remove XP off of it. Is it best to FDISK and if so how do I do that on XP? Is it the same as on the other operating systems or is there a better way?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis came with my Dimension 2400 desktop 3 years ago which of course I updated to SP2.I was wondering if it could be used as the operating system for another laptop without one (maybe Dell or Toshiba) for my second computer and still be recognized for all the Microsoft updates. Someday my Fujitsu 655 TX hard drive will use up all of its rotations
View 10 Replies View RelatedI had windows SP2 on my Compaq Presario SR1123WM before it crashed and went back to California for repair.I still have the CD to install the program.But it will not install, either from download from microsoft, or from the CD.I get an error message " Extraction failed.(ccyclic redundancy check)" And a few minutes later, I get the screen, " SP2 did not install," or some such thing. Anyway, I have tried 14 times to install this thing, but Microsoft tells me that Compaq is responsible, because it was OEM installed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to defrag I get a message that a Chkdsk/f. is schedualed to run and to run it first I have tried everything to find this Chkdsk/f and can find it no where please some one help me I need to defrag my computer is so slow because of the nee dto defrag.
View 15 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to know what cd key I typed in a year ago when I installed xp on my computer. I cannot find the box with the cd key anywhere, and I need to wype the hard drive and reinstall. The computer is virus ridden, but it will boot into safe mode. Can I find the cd key from within the os in safe mode?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAn XPS M1530 and I want to install XP, preferably with the option to dual-boot Vista. A friend of mine installed Vista Pro on his dell desktop. The computer originally came with XP, so he gave me his product key to use for my laptop. If that works,i'm a little concerned about finding the correct drivers for it. Will the same drivers work? Also, to dual-boot means i have to partition my drive. Unfortunately i really don't know how to go about doing that, nor do i know what would be good sizes for a 320GB Hard Disk.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI do not have PowerPoint on my new Dell computer. I have received some .ppt and .pps files and when I try to open them it spits the dummy! Is there a
way to vew these files or do I have to buy a PowerPoint package?
I just did a clean re-install of windows xp home edition and I cannot go to any microsoft site. I tried going to start menu then clicking windows update but it comes up page not found. I have tried both IE and Firefox to go directly to microsoft's website to get service pack 3 and all the updates but it won't go to any microsoft website. It just comes up page not found. What could be causing this?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedDell 8400 desktop..On bootup, the Dell logo screen appears and goes to a 'dos-like' screen advising: Floppy diskette seek failure, strike F1 key to continue or F2 to run Setup Utility'.I get no response from F1 other than a beep. F2 brings me to the setup menu, but can I get to safe mode just in case my 5.5 yr old computer is about dead? Dell just replaced the motherboard & power supply in Oct after that quit working after a surge protected power outage. I don't have many personal files on the C drive other than my iTunes & my email
View 4 Replies View RelatedInstall windows home edition on my dell laptop or do I have to buy a dell specific disk.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe computer will run setup [load files]. But when it gets to install, a STOP ERROR SCREEN comes up. This is with XP Pro. So I tried XP Home. The computer will install it. Can you tell me why it will not install XP Pro?
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