I have a dell optiplex gx 260 – new hd 500gb, 2gb memory. 2 cd/dvd writers. This was working fine. I reloaded the os and then restored the data 2 months ago. 9 days ago turned on the computer, saw the dell splash screen with options of F2/12 then splash screen went off like normal and all I had was a blinking prompt in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Booted to diagnostics – all passed. Swapped power supplies. same result wouldn’t boot from hd. Reformatted hd, reloaded windows and minimum software – office, anti-virus, adobe stuff, firefox. Added users. Worked great.
Next day wouldn’t boot again. Followed same process of reformatting hd and loading os and sw. This time made ghost image. I have reloaded the ghost image 5 times and the computer runs great for a day. But it will not boot again after a day. I have even swapped hard drives.
Any idea what the problem is?
Running Windows XP SP3
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in my opinion ur boot manager is corrupted i dont know whic os u r using but it if using ista put the vista installation dvd in it and boot ur computer through it than u ll c the menu just proceed further and click repair my computer and than click on startup repair if it works fine and if doesnt repeat the procedure again and click on system restore and if u r using xp use the system restore option from recovery by pressing f8
Can an update from BIOS resolve this issue? Not totally sure on the Optiplex series but a common defect in the mobo could result in a "no boot’ to OS. Check DELL Support to see if possibly any updates to BIOS patches.