Darrell,
In addition to what dean suggested (if you have no luck) You might check
Dells driver support page for your computer at http://tinyurl.com/5tp2f6
The cd drivers and such won't help till you have a recognized hard drive and
operating system but perhaps the bios download might get results. It's small
enough to fit on a floppy. I would first do as Dean suggested and replace the
battery.
I've fixed a few old dells and compaqs and always had to download the
drivers for them but always had a HD that allowed me to install windows first so,
not sure if I'm being that helpful concerning your problem but if you get it
going, I would download all needed drivers next.
Good luck,
Phil Williams
In a message dated 7/16/2008 11:56:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Darrell, I don't know how much you know about these things, but did you try
setting the hard drive to Master and setting the cd
drive to slave or cable select? Also, make sure that the connector ribbon
is well seated. It may also be that the hard drive has
to be connected to the end of the ribbon and the cd to the middle. I would
first try it without the cd connected to the ribbon at
all and see if it will recognize the hd, then, once it recognizes the hd,
connect the cd. (I am assuming that this is a desktop; if
it is a laptop, then the ribbon suggestion may be irrelevant.) It may be,
too, that in the cmos settings you have to choose the
auto-detect hard drive settings. If it is a very old computer, you might
want to install a new battery (that holds the cmos
settings.) They only cost a couple of dollars at Wal-Mart or the Shack.
Good luck!
Dean Kukral
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Dunn" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:56 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] hard drive / cd drive not detected
I have a dell optiplex gx240 which I bought from government surplus, it did
not come with a hard drive. when I installed a hard drive the computer does
not detect it nor the cd drive which was already on it. when I turn on the
computer it only gives me the option to retry boot sequence, ( which does
nothing) or go to setup. when I go to setup it does not show the hard drive
nor the cd drive, only the floppy drive. what must be done to correct this
problem?
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