Hello,
I have a Dell Vostro 1500 with some possible Hardware Problems. I wanted to get some feedback from the rest of the community on if I am looking in the right direction.
The laptop was running Microsoft Vista Home Basic and was encountering several programs not responding throughout the day. So I decided it was time for a format. So I backed up the personal files on an external drive and decided to just do a "Dell Factory Restore". Well I ran that, and I would get an error message in the middle of the install. The Error Message did not contain any text, just a red circle with and X, very odd. So I thought it was maybe a problem with the "Dell Factory Restore" image. So I thought maybe this is a Hard Drive Problem. So I purchased a brand new Western Digtial 160GB SATA Drive from New Egg.
I took out the old hard drive and put in the new one and got " No Internal Boot Sectors to Boot To". So I was like ummm ... Bad Hard Drive?
Well I booted to the Windows Vista Business CD I had and ran an install. Everything went great yet when it was done the install and rebooted I got a "System Repair Screen" which kept failing.
So i decided to run a Dell Diagnostic. The Dell Diagnostic found an Error 2000-0123 with DIMM Slot A (AKA Bad DIMM) So I went in and removed the "bad" DIMM from slot A and replaced it with the DIMM from slot B. I reran a Dell Diagnostic and it came out clear.
I then tried to do another format and reinstall of Vista Business and still got the "System Repair screen" which kept failing. Any thoughts here?
I have a Dell Vostro 1500 with some possible Hardware Problems. I wanted to get some feedback from the rest of the community on if I am looking in the right direction.
The laptop was running Microsoft Vista Home Basic and was encountering several programs not responding throughout the day. So I decided it was time for a format. So I backed up the personal files on an external drive and decided to just do a "Dell Factory Restore". Well I ran that, and I would get an error message in the middle of the install. The Error Message did not contain any text, just a red circle with and X, very odd. So I thought it was maybe a problem with the "Dell Factory Restore" image. So I thought maybe this is a Hard Drive Problem. So I purchased a brand new Western Digtial 160GB SATA Drive from New Egg.
I took out the old hard drive and put in the new one and got " No Internal Boot Sectors to Boot To". So I was like ummm ... Bad Hard Drive?
Well I booted to the Windows Vista Business CD I had and ran an install. Everything went great yet when it was done the install and rebooted I got a "System Repair Screen" which kept failing.
So i decided to run a Dell Diagnostic. The Dell Diagnostic found an Error 2000-0123 with DIMM Slot A (AKA Bad DIMM) So I went in and removed the "bad" DIMM from slot A and replaced it with the DIMM from slot B. I reran a Dell Diagnostic and it came out clear.
I then tried to do another format and reinstall of Vista Business and still got the "System Repair screen" which kept failing. Any thoughts here?