nna528
10-05-2007, 02:21 AM
Hi, I posted this message to a thread someone else posted having an issue with, but it was rather old so I'm reposting new, and also updating some other things I had an idea about and tried.
Here is the original post:
Looking to see if anyone can offer any advice or suggestions, I'm not an expert but I'm pretty knowledgable and have been able to diagnose, repair, and fix most of my computer's problems.
First off, this system is a few years old but taken care of Dell Dimension 4400.
1.7gb proc
512mb ram
Maxtor 40gb hard drive
My computer had been working fine and well, and I had sat it aside while I was hooking up another computer to do some things to it. When I reconnected it I came up with the error listed in this thread "No boot device detected: system halted" ... I've looked up several things on it and tried some things, I've checked all my cables and connections, checked my ram, and such. I just don't understand what else it could be, perhaps my motherboard or some component I'm not well versed in yet. I also connected a spare harddrive to it that I know worked and it gave me the same message... took it out and reconnected back to working computer and it worked fine again. However, when I take the harddrive out of the dimension and hook it to the working computer it gives me a, I can't quite remember the message now, but something similar to 'disk error' or 'error reading disk'. I'm not sure what to do from here and just thought I'd ask for any other advice.
Since..... I have created a seatools for dos diagnostic ... at first it came up several times that no hard drive detected, so I took and swapped the power cable, and rebooted. This time it worked brought up the harddrive, it failed SMART scan, passed short scan, and so on. But it was saying the temp was high, like 84. This is another problem in itself but I'm going to come back to that in a second. I ran seatools again, and now it's saying the same thing that the hard drive isn't detected.
Coming back to the temperature issue. A few months back the fan quit working and I replaced it. The connector on it doesn't fit into the one on the motherboard but I found a cable that was an adapter for the plug fit that it had. So, at this point the fan worked and went fine. The inital msg saying 'processor fan not detected' I thought would come up anyway since it's not plugged directly into the motherboard like it used to be. This may or may not be the case, I'm unsure, but I suspect now that I've gotten the fan powered up again it will remain able to cool. I just wanted to throw this information out that for that bit of background.
I suppose this sums up my novel for now. I would really like to get this back going cause I never had any problems with it and its always been a pretty little stable computer for basic stuff. Any suggestions, ideas, thought, guesses, anything would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Natalie
Here is the original post:
Looking to see if anyone can offer any advice or suggestions, I'm not an expert but I'm pretty knowledgable and have been able to diagnose, repair, and fix most of my computer's problems.
First off, this system is a few years old but taken care of Dell Dimension 4400.
1.7gb proc
512mb ram
Maxtor 40gb hard drive
My computer had been working fine and well, and I had sat it aside while I was hooking up another computer to do some things to it. When I reconnected it I came up with the error listed in this thread "No boot device detected: system halted" ... I've looked up several things on it and tried some things, I've checked all my cables and connections, checked my ram, and such. I just don't understand what else it could be, perhaps my motherboard or some component I'm not well versed in yet. I also connected a spare harddrive to it that I know worked and it gave me the same message... took it out and reconnected back to working computer and it worked fine again. However, when I take the harddrive out of the dimension and hook it to the working computer it gives me a, I can't quite remember the message now, but something similar to 'disk error' or 'error reading disk'. I'm not sure what to do from here and just thought I'd ask for any other advice.
Since..... I have created a seatools for dos diagnostic ... at first it came up several times that no hard drive detected, so I took and swapped the power cable, and rebooted. This time it worked brought up the harddrive, it failed SMART scan, passed short scan, and so on. But it was saying the temp was high, like 84. This is another problem in itself but I'm going to come back to that in a second. I ran seatools again, and now it's saying the same thing that the hard drive isn't detected.
Coming back to the temperature issue. A few months back the fan quit working and I replaced it. The connector on it doesn't fit into the one on the motherboard but I found a cable that was an adapter for the plug fit that it had. So, at this point the fan worked and went fine. The inital msg saying 'processor fan not detected' I thought would come up anyway since it's not plugged directly into the motherboard like it used to be. This may or may not be the case, I'm unsure, but I suspect now that I've gotten the fan powered up again it will remain able to cool. I just wanted to throw this information out that for that bit of background.
I suppose this sums up my novel for now. I would really like to get this back going cause I never had any problems with it and its always been a pretty little stable computer for basic stuff. Any suggestions, ideas, thought, guesses, anything would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Natalie