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JonBoyFishhead

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:20 am
Post subject: major problem
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Hello all, I am currently having major problems with my Dell Deminsion
8250. I was performing a "System Restore" and lost power during this
process. When I turned the computer back on, I found that the only
connection to my computer that is working is my keyboard. And I also get
the BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death). I went into bios to set the cdrom to
boot first, however, my cdrom shows up as being uninstalled. I tried to
reach the "ghost" pc recovery partition by pressing CNTRL+F11 upon
startup, but that doesnt work. I am now thinking about flashing the bios
or possibly replacing the motherboard itself. would either of these
options work? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks for
your help.


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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:20 am
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Dell technical support is in the best position to help you.
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JonBoyFishhead wrote:
> Hello all, I am currently having major problems with my Dell Deminsion
> 8250. I was performing a "System Restore" and lost power during this
> process. When I turned the computer back on, I found that the only
> connection to my computer that is working is my keyboard. And I also get
> the BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death). I went into bios to set the cdrom to
> boot first, however, my cdrom shows up as being uninstalled. I tried to
> reach the "ghost" pc recovery partition by pressing CNTRL+F11 upon
> startup, but that doesnt work. I am now thinking about flashing the bios
> or possibly replacing the motherboard itself. would either of these
> options work? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks for
> your help.
>
>
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:20 am
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sometimes you can boot with
a xp cd and run a chkdsk /p
from the recovery console.

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you see when there is a sudden
loss of power, then the read write
functions to files is interrupted,
especially the registry hive.

so a check disk can usually fix
errors to the file system.


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> Hello all, I am currently having major problems with my Dell Deminsion
> 8250. I was performing a "System Restore" and lost power during this
> process. When I turned the computer back on, I found that the only
> connection to my computer that is working is my keyboard. And I also get
> the BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death). I went into bios to set the cdrom to
> boot first, however, my cdrom shows up as being uninstalled. I tried to
> reach the "ghost" pc recovery partition by pressing CNTRL+F11 upon
> startup, but that doesnt work. I am now thinking about flashing the bios
> or possibly replacing the motherboard itself. would either of these
> options work? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks for
> your help.
>
>
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philo

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:20 pm
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JonBoyFishhead wrote:
> Hello all, I am currently having major problems with my Dell Deminsion
> 8250. I was performing a "System Restore" and lost power during this
> process. When I turned the computer back on, I found that the only
> connection to my computer that is working is my keyboard. And I also get
> the BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death). I went into bios to set the cdrom to
> boot first, however, my cdrom shows up as being uninstalled. I tried to
> reach the "ghost" pc recovery partition by pressing CNTRL+F11 upon
> startup, but that doesnt work. I am now thinking about flashing the bios
> or possibly replacing the motherboard itself. would either of these
> options work? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks for
> your help.
>
>



Don't do anything drastic...
the power loss may have "scrambled" your bios

try resetting it to default and trying again

Do *not* try to reflash the bios


I also suggest you invest in a UPS...
especially important during critical operations.
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