My son's computer.
-Dell Dimension 3000 purchased in July 2005
-HDD went South (Samsung 40 Gb) per Dell's diagnostics and tech during a "tech "chat"" (out of warranty, ours to fix)
-remover th Samsung HDD
-installed a GOOD Western Digital HDD 60 Gb preloaded w/ XP Home Ed.,SP1, SP2, and Panda InternetSecurity Siute ( my back up HDD)
-will only boot to the windows choices screen ( safe mode, safe mode w/ command prompt, start windows normally, etc.
-none of these choices result in anything but being returned to the same screen of choices Seems to hang at the same place, a command line dealing with mup (???) and drivers
1st Question becomes
What do I do to get this ____ thing to boot to windows ?
Can the BIOS be flashed with a NON DELL command set,new BIOS chip?
Mobo carries these markings
-RU (R is backward) us E210882 DS/NA CN-OK8980-70821-51F-4260:c/o CN AA C92755-301 Rev A02 (BIOS rev ....)
At this point my greatest desire is to remove all things Dell ( CMOS, BIOS, etc) that prevent me from getting into this comp' like i can MY CyberPower.
ANY help is GREATLY appreciated and will help to re-establish my position as a Hero in my 18 year old son's eyes ( very important)
Thank you
-Dell Dimension 3000 purchased in July 2005
-HDD went South (Samsung 40 Gb) per Dell's diagnostics and tech during a "tech "chat"" (out of warranty, ours to fix)
-remover th Samsung HDD
-installed a GOOD Western Digital HDD 60 Gb preloaded w/ XP Home Ed.,SP1, SP2, and Panda InternetSecurity Siute ( my back up HDD)
-will only boot to the windows choices screen ( safe mode, safe mode w/ command prompt, start windows normally, etc.
-none of these choices result in anything but being returned to the same screen of choices Seems to hang at the same place, a command line dealing with mup (???) and drivers
1st Question becomes
What do I do to get this ____ thing to boot to windows ?
Can the BIOS be flashed with a NON DELL command set,new BIOS chip?
Mobo carries these markings
-RU (R is backward) us E210882 DS/NA CN-OK8980-70821-51F-4260:c/o CN AA C92755-301 Rev A02 (BIOS rev ....)
At this point my greatest desire is to remove all things Dell ( CMOS, BIOS, etc) that prevent me from getting into this comp' like i can MY CyberPower.
ANY help is GREATLY appreciated and will help to re-establish my position as a Hero in my 18 year old son's eyes ( very important)
Thank you