I have been working through all of the support documents for my Dimension 2350 but so far, I have not had much luck or success. Here's the problem in a nutshell. Boot up the computer, get to the Dell Splash screen, then there is a brief screen with an option to go into Windows XP home edition or Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console. Normally, it waits a couple of seconds and then goes right into the User screen to log in. The problem now is that instead of going into that screen now it goes into a black screen and that is it! It doesn't appear to be reading the hard drive once the screen goes black.
I have been able to go into F2 or F12 at the Dell splash screen but have not had any success with either starting the computer in safe mode or running diagnostics. I was able to use the CD that came with the computer and was able to run the Diagnostics off of that. However, the only error codes that came up from that run was1100:0129, 1100:0229, 1100:0329 and 1100:0429.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
bueller, anyone?
Franknbeans2
The last three of the Dell error codes shown refer to a floppy drive '[Diskette Drive]'.
See HERE
Try running Diagnostic's extended test on the hard drive.
Bev.
Forum Member since 2001
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