20 Most Recent Dell Optiplex GX50 Intel Desktop PC - Intel Celeron 900MHz, 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD, CD-ROM, Questions & Answers

Drop the CD in the tray after you press F12 and select Boot from CD drive, and follow the instructions, the CD will do most of the work

Hi,go to the shop and buy Windows Xp Sp 3 (edition by your needs ;))then when you have bought the DVD/CD - turn the PC onkeep pressing F12 (just keep pressing it until you see a screen with boot options)insert the DVD/CDselect the option to boot from the CD/DVDthen follow the instruction the setup gives youI hope this has answered your question, glad to help!

i bought.a new dell laptop. Modle-N4010. It's battery is not charging but this is working when attached the adapter from theswitch otherwise it is not working.pl.help me.

Try contacting dell, they should be able to help you.
Here is a link that will explain what the diagnostic lights mean. This is for all Dell Desktop PC's.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/Op745/en/UG_en/trouble.htm
I hope this helps.
Good luck and have a pleasent day.

Have you downloaded and installed the mother board drivers?

Press Ctrl + Esc Click the links for more info if that does not work.
http://ask-leo.com/my_taskbar_is_missing_and_i_have_no_start_button_what_do_i_do.html
http://petermartinconsult.supanet.com/computer/windows/taskbar.htm

Flashing Amber light might indicate that the power supply is not working correctly. Replace the power supply.
I found a website that sells them and they have pictures to see how the power supply looks like. Open your computer and see which one you have and look around for the best deal.
http://www.discountelectronics.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=5460&gclid=CJybyavBwqUCFdJf2godTVGCag

Try and test the computer with an old PS2 keyboard, if this still fails try to reinstall windows to fix any corrupted drivers.

If the sound card driver has been correctly installed, go to control panel> sound and audio device>check "Place volume icon in the taskbar"

Hi,

There are issue with that any of the hardware is not connected properly or any of the hardware has been faulty.So pls remove the Keyboard ,Mouse ,Hard drive and Cmos Battery and check it one by one .might be issue with hard drive pls get it replaced by goods one or repair it by vendor.

Hard drives can exhibit extraordinary heat output as the platter bushings start to go bad. Sometime they will make noise, but not always. As the platter bushing wear out the drive system draws more amperage from the power supply. This can cause both the HDD and the power supply to generate exesive heat. Unfortunately, there is no definate test for this. If you have a spare drive, you can run it for a couple of hours to test this theory. Best bet is to get that data backed up before you loose the drive all together.

Which cdrom is it? Is it a windows XP cd? This is an older PC? Does it have a floppy disk drive? Try downloading from Barts a bootable floppy disk, set boot order to floppy in BIOS, change to cdrom drive letter after booting to floppy (D:?)
got to I386 folder and set up from there.
More info would be helpful.

Larry provides great information. Larry Ng Apr 30, 2022 good news the not told at all PC screen is not dead. a major fact but lacks all evidence like: 1, No PC told no OS told xp to w11 2: fans spin? all do, psu ,cpu and gpu card if fan. 3: Optiplex is a desktop 29 years of models made wow. 4: you mean Dell Splash logo. yes, and then it does the post bar, if post bar stalls that means hardware gross errors. sadly no PC model told of vast versions. wow. just wow hopeless that.? but is par here, and vast wrong answers just for that fact alone.even mine. i have many optiplex PC here old and new and my fav is 9020MT or smaller my oldest is 380(in storage) is your coin cell dead. (if yes can NOT be ignored) my dells all have F12 diagnostics, power on and hammer F12,, pick diag eSPA and run it older PCs dell if the HDD is dead the F12 diag is dead. due to being located there back long ago. my dells have a BIOS log page, go to BIOS the click tab, LOG read the logs. see what fails. (coin cell RTC sure)_ easy no?\ but why on earth post lacking the model number making any useful simple help 10 pages long for 29years of models. 1993 is the first OptiPlex, seen here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_OptiP... nobody can guess and no era is the same. evolution max. ..

What is the exact error that you are getting? Do you get any blue screens? Have you installed any software recently or made any changes? I can only suggest checking the power cables and trying to use a different cable or spare if you have any for now.

Sounds like your on Google Chrome, this has started popping up since the last update and only on secure webpages at random, try running Windows Update and make sure it's up to date, it check the root certificates which should come with the windows updates.

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ok 960 SFF is not the same as MT or the big case MOBO.SFF has its own mobo (motherboards)it has 11x2 row non ATX spec, power . not yours as it has 12x2 some SFF have 2 diffr. moboand a dell custom PSU for just this mobo and its odd duck jack. (called PICO plug)why not buy a new PSU? that matches this PC?even the SFF PSU case is not ATX spec.https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-960_service%20manual_en-us.pdf

Go into device manager. Uninstall audio driver. Restart computer. This will reinstall the default driver. Try again. If it doesn't work, go to Dell website to find specific driver for your computer (using the service tag) and install that.