on start up and without warning the harddrive would not boot,
>> Within a few seconds of powering up, the flashing cursor flashes up a
>> single line for a fraction of a second saying "loading PBR for descriptor 2
>> ..........done" the screen then remains black and booting sequence stops.
>>
>> I have run scandisk from DOS loaded by changing the boot sequence to CD
>> only and using the drivers & utilities resource disk and
>> it says C drive has no errors
>> I have run hard drive diagnostics and the hardware diagnostics (which took
>> a few hours) and returned no errors
>> On the boot device menu I have had success loading the utilities disk but
>> not OS reinstallation CD - get a blank screen not even a cursor.
Dell's suggestion was to remove all usb except keyboard and mouse. but now that has failed they feel it got to be a restore.
Swapping the BIOS battery has also not helped
>> any ideas please
>> Thank you
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