Dell Won't Start

[Singleton]

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[cornfish]

Does it power on and boot the OS at all? Or is it dead in the water?

 

[Singleton]

Sorry, I posted in the wrong forum, then realized it was the wrong forum, but now it's to late.

Sorry!

 

[Singleton]

OK it got moved, but not before I reposted. Sorry again. Damn, I should've known better.

Anyway, the orig post:
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Hey all you computer experts,

I got a serious problem with my Dell.

The HD spins a little as if attempting to start and then slows down. Is there a special trick to getting it to start?

(This has nothing to do w/fitness. Sorry it's so off topic.)
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It does not power on. It tries to. Here's what happens when I press the power button:
The HD starts to spin up and then spins back down and the thing just dies.

 

[cornfish]

Take the hard drive out and put it in another machine as a slave device and get the data off it. Just throw a new drive in the dell and re-install. Problem solved

 

[SoKlueles]

or call dell and get them to help u, thats what they are there for
and if u red me again for tellign u this im gonna not be pleased cuz im only trying to help

 

[AAP]

Back up as much as you can.

If you call Dell, all they are going to tell you to do is reformat the harddrive. That is all they seem to know how to instruct you to do. Fucking outsourced bitches.

 

[manny78]

Back up as much as you can.

If you call Dell, all they are going to tell you to do is reformat the harddrive. That is all they seem to know how to instruct you to do. Fucking outsourced bitches.

Maybe it changed in the last months but for hardware related problems, Dell was very effective and their service was based in Canada (for Dell Canada I assume). Only when you called about Windows you had punk located in India...

 

[SoKlueles]

I had to call them about my computer once because it wouldnt hook up to cable modem for some reason and it was after i downloaded the service pack 2 and yeah they told me to reformat the whole thing which was ok with me, i dont keep stuff much on my computer
but for someone that does, it has to be a pain

 

[AAP]

When I called, I got an ass from India named Joe. Couldn't understand a word he said. I asked for another guy, got a Frank that talked the same way. Bunch of lying name changing bitches.

 

[SoKlueles]

When I called, I got an ass from India named Joe. Couldn't understand a word he said. I asked for another guy, got a Frank that talked the same way. Bunch of lying name changing bitches.

oh yeah, i had to ask them to tell me stuff twice at least, with their foreign accents and my southern accent it was a headache to talk to them

 

[digger]

Two other possibles -- one, the power supply is crapping out. Or my favorite -- if the CPU fan is gone, the whole things shuts down in like two seconds flat to keep from frying. Sound familiar?

 

[Singleton]

less than 1 second. Maybe the noise is the CPU fan. Yeah, I think it's not the HD, but instead the fan.