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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote slaz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 October 2011 at 3:47pm
Originally posted by soundchippy soundchippy wrote:

Gave the machine a try today. Booted into Bios, reset defaults (not sure if this did anything tbh), then ran the dell factory restore from the recovery partition. Woking fine now.  Confused

Thanks for all the tips.


Looks like

"Oh yeah - one more possibility - you may just have corrupted BIOS setup data (CMOS data)."

was probably a correct diagnosis then :-)




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Builder Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 October 2011 at 4:29pm
Or very slightly loose RAM, deffo re-seat it.
It just is.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote soundchippy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 October 2011 at 4:34pm
I find it funny that it even booted this morning. pc wasnt even getting to the dell screen last night
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote slaz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 October 2011 at 4:48pm
Originally posted by The Builder The Builder wrote:

Or very slightly loose RAM, deffo re-seat it.


True ...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TechnoChef Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 October 2011 at 5:40pm
Originally posted by slaz slaz wrote:


Originally posted by The Builder The Builder wrote:

Or very slightly loose RAM, deffo re-seat it.


True ...


I second that, some of the dells I see at work have serious build quality issues
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