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10-15-2008
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| | Vista Home premium - Failure to boot Gateway DX4710, Home Premium 64-bit, 6Gb ram. Plugged in an Ion external drive, system grenaded. Unplugged drive and now cannot boot system. Get to the Gateway splash screen, Intel logo lower left, Boot Menu <F10> and BIOS setting <F2> on lower right. Neither will respond. Rebooted pressing <F8>, per Gateway manual, and no response. Unplugged everything except monitor, keyboard and mouse. Still not responding. Suggestions? |
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10-15-2008
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| | Re: Vista Home premium - Failure to boot Warthog47 wrote: Quote: > Gateway DX4710, Home Premium 64-bit, 6Gb ram. > Plugged in an Ion external drive, system grenaded. > Unplugged drive and now cannot boot system. > Get to the Gateway splash screen, Intel logo lower left, Boot Menu <F10> > and BIOS setting <F2> on lower right. > Neither will respond. > Rebooted pressing <F8>, per Gateway manual, and no response. > Unplugged everything except monitor, keyboard and mouse. > Still not responding. > Suggestions? load, you have hardware failure. Contact Gateway for repair/replacement if under warranty. If not under warranty, you may want to try hardware troubleshooting it yourself or take the machine to a local computer professional. I don't recommend using a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place. http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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10-19-2008
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| | Re: Vista Home premium - Failure to boot I am a cheap SOB so I went through pretty basic stuff. Removed and reinstalled the hard drive; reseated the RAM; reseated all connections. Somewhere in there, something changed. Machine is functional again. Thanks for the tip. "Malke" wrote: Quote: > Warthog47 wrote: > Quote: > > Gateway DX4710, Home Premium 64-bit, 6Gb ram. > > Plugged in an Ion external drive, system grenaded. > > Unplugged drive and now cannot boot system. > > Get to the Gateway splash screen, Intel logo lower left, Boot Menu <F10> > > and BIOS setting <F2> on lower right. > > Neither will respond. > > Rebooted pressing <F8>, per Gateway manual, and no response. > > Unplugged everything except monitor, keyboard and mouse. > > Still not responding. > > Suggestions? > Since you're not even getting to the point where the operating system would > load, you have hardware failure. Contact Gateway for repair/replacement if > under warranty. If not under warranty, you may want to try hardware > troubleshooting it yourself or take the machine to a local computer > professional. I don't recommend using a BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of > place. > > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot > > Malke > -- > MS-MVP > Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! > FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ > > |
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10-19-2008
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| | Re: Vista Home premium - Failure to boot Warthog47 wrote: Quote: > I am a cheap SOB so I went through pretty basic stuff. > Removed and reinstalled the hard drive; reseated the RAM; reseated all > connections. > Somewhere in there, something changed. > Machine is functional again. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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