Dell dimension 5100, having problems.

Ems*Honie

Hi,

On starting up the computer today it started emitting a high pitched noise, would only load as far as the intial windows start up page and lights 1,2,3 were lit up on the processor front.

I hit f12 just to get it doing something, after I came out of the system set up (didn't change anything) the comp has loaded fine

The dell is the comp I work on so I dont want to risk it impoding (been there with an HP that just shut down, they couldn,t even access the hard drive)

ETA, I just restarted the comp and found the same response, again I managed to get the computer to load by going through the system set up without changing anything.

Any advice on what could be wrong, or what I should do would be appreciated!

Thanks.

Browntoa

could possibly be the bios battery failing

not the end of the world and cheap/easy to replace



get them from Maplins etc

Ems*Honie

Thanks browntoa,

I will have a look at bios tech bits, all the display lights are showing green so I think thats a good sign for the main comp? If its too difficult I will pop it into the village shop tomorrow, I cant isk that comp as it's running software I need thats not compatible with the vista on this one.

chunter

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim5100/en/sm/tshoot0.htm#wp1122017

Dell 5100 service manual - beeps and error lights.