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Dell + Changing Hard Drives = Problems?

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First I got a very old Dell. I wanted to take out its HDD and put it on my other PC. Turned out it didn't work so I put it back in and now it wont't boot up past the boot up screen. Is there a lock that Dell has when you try to tinker with its' inside set up? I have removed the RAM once too and placing a simple 256 MB RAM replacement and it won't boot up even though it recognizes the RAM bank. Is there anything I should be aware of from Dell?

-J.
 
i don't know much about dell, but i swapped HDDs with my gateway, along with 2 sticks of ram and i didn't have any problems.

Its was a PII 400Mhz (Gateway G6-400)

what a hunk of junk, lmao

its dead now though and in many many pieces
 
Try pulling the battery out of the mobo for a bit if you can't find the BIOS reset jumper. I'd be trying that for now.

Also make sure (I know sounds stupid) make sure you arn't putting the HDD cable in backwards. Some of the older IDE cables weren't keyed and you could do this. The system wouldn't detect the drive in this situation and the drive wouldn't spin up either.

As for Dell locking they're systems components. Not likely. I've worked on a couple dells now. I worked on PIII 800 and a PII 500 and I had no problems with that. I actually replaced the hard drive in the PIII 800 system with a new drive. I just put the drive in, Fdisked, formatted and installed the OS off of the restore CD that came with the system and there was absolutely no issue.
 
Check the jumpers, cable positions and such. Dell doesn't have any type of "lock" that would cause any problems swapping drives.
 
Gotcha. It pretty much works now. The CD-ROM drive was temporarily handicapped. It wouldn't open but within a full cmos clear + plug out and another boot up, things proceeded fine with 320 MB RAM (128 + 256). The HDD was actually fine. It can run windows set up fine. Just re-install Windows. :)

GG'z.

-J.
 
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