Hello Hugh,
I think maybe we can rule out a heat problem. Both fans are running good and
the computer is painstakingly cleaned out with a power air compressor two
times a year.
When I use the F12 key to go to the diagnostics page, I get a report saying
“Utility Partition not Available” and the computer just keeps going back to
the blue warning screen. I never gave it though to count the exact number of
beeps when the computer first shut down, (A true amateur). I think there
were at least four or five. The green and yellow lights on the back of the
computer are showing the flowing: A=G, B=G, C=G and D=Y. The web site
recommendation for that code sequence is to “Ensure that the cables are
properly connected from the hard drive, CD drive, and DVD drive to the
system board.” I did that by removing all the connections and reinstalling
them. I located the original Dell Utilities CD and ran all the diagnostics
and that is telling me, “IDE device is blank or no media present in the
optical drive.”
Question: Just what is the IDE in my computer, is it replaceable and how
hard would it be for me to replace?
Don
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Antonio Figueroa <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Don Dewitt:
>
> Do the lights do any pattern?,Does it beep 5 times steady or does do 1 beep
> then 3 beep then 1beep,here is what I found online,hope it helps.
>
> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8400/SM/adtshoot.htm#wp1052933
>
> Best Regard,
> Antonio Figueroa
> --- On Fri, 6/5/09, Donald DeWitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Donald DeWitt <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer Problem
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 2:22 PM
>
> Booted up computer today and it ran normal for about ˝ hr. and then
> suddenly
> shut down. First the screen went black, then there were 4 or 5 beeps coming
> from the tower, and finally a sound like the hard drive was spinning out
> control that lasted only a short time. Rebooting resulted in a blue screen
> stating Windows was shutting the system down. Using the F12 key I entered
> into a page that let me do a Hard Drive Diagnostic test. The results
> revealed – “Pass”
>
>
>
> This computer is a 5 year old Dell 8400 running XP. I have not added any
> new
> software or hardware recently and I do a daily run with AVG and Super anti
> spyware.
>
>
>
> Do you have any suggestions what the problem might be?
>
>
>
> Thank You,
>
>
>
> Don Dewitt
>
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