Except for 2. These work fine before the image is downloaded, however, when the image is installed, it will not boot. They make it to the XP splash screen then reboot. I've tried different RAM, and different hard drives, however it doesn't seem to help. The Optiplex s with the E processors behave quite differently than the ones with the E processors.
It seems that Dell was mixing and matching hardware. One thing I have noticed is that the tiny utility partition that Dell puts in front of the primary partition on its drives will sometimes be corrupt. Deleteing that thing, reformating and reinstalling usually does the trick.
They reason for the BSOD is because those particular computers have different hard ware in them somewhere. Or the drives are bad. Sorry, it's a holdover from my days as a car mechanic. With cars, sometimes the manufacturer would change a part in the middle of a year for some reason suppliers, recalls, etc. Although you had a Chevy Malibu, you may have a different type of rotor or windshield wiper motor or whatever than someone who bought their car 2 months later.
I was figuring something similar happened here. The computers have Optiplex badges, but have a slightly different part somewhere. Sounds like you are missing a driver somewhere for something in the machine that is required for Boot On to motherboard WIndows starts up..
I was about to do a Winxp Pro repair but I dont have the original disks I can get into safe mode. Or can I try a repair with another winxp pro disk I'm a win98 kind of guy. Joined Jun 11, Messages 2, Thanks Mike, I love it when people point out the obvious. I just hadn't got to the MS kb stuff. Was next on my list. Can I use an non-original winxp pro cd to accomplish this??
Fan on vid card wasn't working.. Mobo didn't responded when powersupply replaced. Tried the MS kb article Searching for more info. Just tried to restore to a previous point. Still restarting If only I could read the blue screen messages that flash quickly way too fast to read by before it restarts again. Ok, able to stop and read the BSOD message I've seen a plot of posts in the MS kb related to stop messages and possible conflicts with firewalls. Rollin' Rog.
Joined Dec 9, Messages 45, Easy Recovery Essentials can fix many errors such as this automatically using the System Restore feature of the bootable EasyRE environment. After selecting the restore point you which to revert your system to, click on Restore to begin. EasyRE will begin the process of restoring your system configuration to the state it was in at the date that was selected. This option lets you get the exact and complete error message accompanying the Blue Screen of Death by disabling the Automatic Restart option of Windows.
Note: this will not fix the boot error you are experiencing in and of itself, but should provide more information that may prove critical in solving the underlying problem.
The option to disable automatic restart on system failure is available from the Advanced Boot Options menu at startup. The instructions below will trigger this behavior, more detailed instructions on disabling automatic restart on system failure are also available in our knowledgebase. This option is not too appealing I know. This is where restore CDs come in real handy. There may be able couple of things to try first however. A repair should be able to restore that directory and hopefuly allow you to boot.
To be honenst, even if you can get this booting again, it's likely to still have some problems. The only real way to get this back and working like new again, is to install a clean install of XP.
That way, nothing is lost though you'll have to re-install each of the programs. I'd look into some spyware protection for when you do get the computer running. Here's some free ones you can find and download from www. They work well together. You can never actually expect one program to fully clean all of the spyware on a computer.
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