Ken Sterling (Ken Sterling) wrote in message
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I was given a Dell inspiron 8100...not working. It can't find the Hd or
the
CD to boot and they both are not in BIOS. I'm assuming a motherboard but
I'm open to suggestions. It seems too coincidental for both drives to
fail.
It will see and boot from floppy. Other than the fact that it doesn't
work,
it's a nice free laptop.


My son had a Dell that wouldn't boot up - acted like a power supply
problem - lights would flash like one time, then just sit there....
It was a memory board that was bad. Works like new, now.
Ken.


This one will boot on floppy. I did remove the mem boards one at a time
with no change in symptoms.