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 ½ 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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