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Old 20-01-05, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Fathoms Down
That doesn't sound right. The machine would at least make it to the BIOS if the HD was knackered. Sounds like a power problem to me.
It probably does the POST (for those that don't know it is the 'BIOS' that Nick mentioned) and then comes up with the 'unable to find master disk' or 'Primary Hard Disk Failure', something like that. If it was a power problem you would get nothing. Being a Dell machine the likelihood is that they replaced the normal POST screen with some clever and useful marketing logo

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