I've had my Dell Inspiron B120 PC Notebook for two years. My daughter uses it for school work. One day when it was turned on, this screen came up: "The device in the system modular bay cannot be identified. It may not be completely inserted, etc..." I don't know what the "system modular bay" is. We haven't inserted anything, anywhere in this computer--there is no dvd in the drive, no USB devices attached, no printer attached, and the wireless card is not in. I followed the instructions to "strike F1 to retry boot, and nothing happens. I've turned it off a dozen times using ctrl/alt/del and turned it on again--always the same error screen. Could something have jarred loose inside? I live in a very remote area, could I try fixing it myself?
I had the same problem. I took out the optical drive, and powered it on, and it worked. I may have to purchase a new optical drive?
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I had the same problem on my Dell Laptop (BIOS revision A05)
It's either your CD-rom, or hardrive (HD), made sure that
they are plugged in firmly.
In my case this helped for a few boots but problem came
again although laptop wasn't moved.
Replaced HD and solved the problem.
A side effect I noticed before the problem aroused was a
"hart beat pattern" when looking at my I/O. And a short interrupts of
the system every 3sec. (Mouse would freeze for a moment).
Maybe disk was just dying and the errors where warning singes.
**TIP**: Used a USB flash drive and
“Clonezilla
Live” to clone my HD (with Windows XP on it). Worked fine :-) http://www.clonezilla.org/
I believe what you describe is the Docking station. Try to remove this docking station from the computer. There should be an "eject" button on the docking station. I recommend that first you should shutdown the computer before the eject.
then try to reboot.
do you hear any rattling noise ?
Sorry to say, with laptop, it harder to fix then PC.
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I don't think so, not unless a "docking station" would be some integral part the computer. There are 3 2.0 USB things, I've occasionally used a flash drive with this laptop, and we've attached a keyboard and mouse at times.
Me again--couldn't figure out how to respond to Hellanice's suggestion except this way. I really don't think my laptop has a "docking station", the only eject button is for the dvd-rom--so for my situation, your suggestion is irrelevant, but thanks anyway.
Same problem. [email protected] email me to help.
Thank you.
P.S. What is a docking station.
is there a docking station ?
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