- Apr 21, 2005
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This is a random problem that I can't figure out. It doesn't happen all the time, but when I unhooked my computer to re-arrange my office on Saturday I had this problem after booting back up.
When I try to boot from a CD/DVD, my system hangs. For example, when I try to boot from my acronis boot disc, it shows "Starting acronis loader..." and then sits there. Acronis never loads. It does the same with the Windows XP/Vista discs. They load the setup files, then hang.
Windows will not boot, either.
It eventually starts working, though I don't know why. It's not my hard drives, as I've tried 2 different drives.
What do you guys think? I've removed 2 of my 4 512MB DIMMs as a test and the problem was still there. Guess I should still test the last 2.
This computer is under warranty from Dell and the tech is coming this week to fix it so I need to know what the problem is.
When I try to boot from a CD/DVD, my system hangs. For example, when I try to boot from my acronis boot disc, it shows "Starting acronis loader..." and then sits there. Acronis never loads. It does the same with the Windows XP/Vista discs. They load the setup files, then hang.
Windows will not boot, either.
It eventually starts working, though I don't know why. It's not my hard drives, as I've tried 2 different drives.
What do you guys think? I've removed 2 of my 4 512MB DIMMs as a test and the problem was still there. Guess I should still test the last 2.
This computer is under warranty from Dell and the tech is coming this week to fix it so I need to know what the problem is.