Got a 10-year old PC for repair. Dell Dimension 4100. 800MHz Pentium-3, 512 RAM (two 256 Meg PC-133 sticks), Lightscribe DVD-R, good caps.
But it's dead. And, I think, the famous Dell proprietary PSU (labeled "FOXCONN").
Got an error message "Load needed DLLs for Kernel" (and it would stop there) but after booting a few times, now it won't go past BIOS splash screen ("DELL" logo over a globe, with www.dell.com at the bottom, all in blue). Sometimes I can get into BIOS Setup.
Is there anything I should try after taking the CR2032 battery out for about 10 minutes? Caps are good (didn't look inside PSU though). Blow the dust out of the PSU maybe?
80-Gig IDE drive has about 22 Gigs of files on it. NTFS was shut down cleanly (if it had not been, linux would have complained when I tried to mount it).
Is there anything other than copying her docs and photos off the drive for posterity?
But it's dead. And, I think, the famous Dell proprietary PSU (labeled "FOXCONN").
Got an error message "Load needed DLLs for Kernel" (and it would stop there) but after booting a few times, now it won't go past BIOS splash screen ("DELL" logo over a globe, with www.dell.com at the bottom, all in blue). Sometimes I can get into BIOS Setup.
Is there anything I should try after taking the CR2032 battery out for about 10 minutes? Caps are good (didn't look inside PSU though). Blow the dust out of the PSU maybe?
80-Gig IDE drive has about 22 Gigs of files on it. NTFS was shut down cleanly (if it had not been, linux would have complained when I tried to mount it).
Is there anything other than copying her docs and photos off the drive for posterity?
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