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Help is needed for my pc -By Ironman...
PonyBoy:
Yesterday a friend of mine next door gave me a Dell 8200 Dimension,But there was a problem that I couldn`t solve,It was this at computer start up -Diskette Drive 0 Seek Failure,I tried everything I could in the Bio settings,I did these moves I read by people on my google research -Boot into the BIOS using [F2] Hold alt+f, alt+e, alt+b After the beeping stops [ALT] B
It forces the BIOS to reset and re-recognize the drives.and also some people are saying this -Dell systems work better on Cable select.Try setting it like that, with the master drive on the black connector, and the slave drive on the grey connector. It should work out like that. After you've done that, go into your BIOS, and light up the NumLock, CapsLock, and ScrollLock lights on your keyboard. Hold <Alt>+F, then hit <Alt>+E. After it stops beeping, hit <Alt>+B, and this will restart your system. That procedure sets your BIOS back to defaults, and it should force the system to redetect all of the IDE drives.Still nothing works,So anyone out there have pc brain then by all means then help me out here before I waste my money taking it to the shop.btw here are two pics of what my Dell looks like -
[MAF]Snoopy:
headphone jack ;_;
i just take the cmos battery out of the motherboard and leave it for a few minutes, then put it back in and everything is reset.
also, why not take your old hdd out of your other pc and put it in the one that's been given to you, worth a try.
[MAF]MrHess:
safer than taking out the battery, on the pic above u can see the jumper, 3 pins, a cover that takes 2 of em. take out the cover and place it so it covers the middle and the pin that was uncovered, that restarts the bios, now place it back were it was and now ur bios should be default
[MAF]Snoopy:
you still here?
[MAF]falky:
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Just remove the damn diskette drive, its useless. Waste of space and oxygen, plus its the main cause of greenhouse effect thus global warming.
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