ElementalWindX
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Anyone ran across this before?
Computer will NOT boot to the hard drive at all without ANY form of cd in the cd drive.
If you turn on the computer with nothing in the cd drive, it goes past the dell logo, then you get a blinking cursor.
Put any form of cd into the cd drive, and it will boot to the hard drive perfectly.
I have tried various cdroms. I've tried completely removing the cdrom, I've tried switching sata ports. I've reinstalled the OS with a completely new hard drive (it did have root kits and tons of viruses on it). I've swapped memory. I've updated the bios to the newest release. I've stripped every pci/video card out of this thing.
Nothing I know of seems to fix this weird little issue. Does anyone know of a fix? It's a Dell E521 desktop with Windows Vista.
Computer will NOT boot to the hard drive at all without ANY form of cd in the cd drive.
If you turn on the computer with nothing in the cd drive, it goes past the dell logo, then you get a blinking cursor.
Put any form of cd into the cd drive, and it will boot to the hard drive perfectly.
I have tried various cdroms. I've tried completely removing the cdrom, I've tried switching sata ports. I've reinstalled the OS with a completely new hard drive (it did have root kits and tons of viruses on it). I've swapped memory. I've updated the bios to the newest release. I've stripped every pci/video card out of this thing.
Nothing I know of seems to fix this weird little issue. Does anyone know of a fix? It's a Dell E521 desktop with Windows Vista.
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