Update its failed and wont boot now.

gk172

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

OK, do you have the Dell Drivers and Utilities CD?

Just checked and i have them here.

Toxteth_OGrady

@stilltheone

It appears to be freezing during POST. On the splashscreen OP has 2 choices, F2 and F12. The latter accesses the boot menu to select Dell's Diagnostics hidden partition. We've already determined that does nothing.

The next thing to try is F2 to get into the BIOS. If that is frozen and doesn't work I'd be very surprised if it will boot from a recovery CD, but you never know.

After trying F2, if it works OP can go down the Vista Recovery route or use Dell Diagnostics from the Dell CD. If it doesn't work, then I would suggest selective removal of components.

What do you think?

Toxteth_OGrady

gk172 wrote: »

Just checked and i have them here.

Can you get into the BIOS menu by pressing F2 on startup?

stilltheone

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

@stilltheone

It appears to be freezing during POST. On the splashscreen OP has 2 choices, F2 and F12. The latter accesses the boot menu to select Dell's Diagnostics hidden partition. We've already determined that does nothing.

The next thing to try is F2 to get into the BIOS. If that is frozen and doesn't work I'd be very surprised if it will boot from a recovery CD, but you never know.

After trying F2, if it works OP can go down the Vista Recovery route or use Dell Diagnostics from the Dell CD. If it doesn't work, then I would suggest selective removal of components.

What do you think?

Waiting for feedback from the OP, but perhaps a problem with RAM.

gk172

Sorry just checking now

Toxteth_OGrady

stilltheone wrote: »

Waiting for feedback from the OP, but perhaps a problem with RAM.

Certainly starting to look something like that but if OP cannot access BIOS menu a 'clear CMOS' is probably worth a punt.

gk172

Sorry for the delay kids arriving back from school, no sorry f2 isnt doing anything either.

Toxteth_OGrady

OK, just to be sure - are you continuously tapping the F2 key (or F12 when you tried it) as soon as you switch the power on or are you just pressing it once? If only once, try the continuous tapping and report result.

gk172

Ive been trying both if i hit it once next time I kept hitting them.

Toxteth_OGrady

OK you've done about as much as you can for now.

The next steps involve opening up the PC and doing stuff inside. Are you comfortable with that? It's really easy and there's tons of video guides on YouTube you can follow.