20 Most Recent Dell OptiPlex GX150 SF PC Desktop - Page 2 Questions & Answers

probably ur ram is faulty..replace with a standby n see..
also check for defective capacitors on the main/mother board..
reinstall os..
..contact ur system admin/vendor

Probably you should purchasing a new software.

Go to the Registry and delete the old installation and re-install it all over again.

Regards

unfortunatly you can no longer buy a copy of windows 2000. Also the optiplex gx150 will xp but very slowly, make sure you have at least 256mb of ram. See if someone around you has a windows 2000 disk that you can borrow for educational purposes.

I've done this before in my early days. Make sure that the memory is exactly the samme type as the original one, and make sure your motherboard can handle the extended memory. Check in system properties for all this info.

That sounds like a power supply issue. Irregular power on is often caused by a bad "PWR_OK" signal from the PSU. If you can try to find another power supply and test to see if the board will POST regularly. if that is the case, you will need a new PSU. I don't know if this PC uses a proprietary form factor PSU -likely does though due to your description. You may not be able to find a replacement that will fit in the chassis. It might be time for a new PC unfortunately.

reinstall the s/w all over again

I have experienced this problem as well, it is either the CD is scratch or the CD-rom lens needs cleaning, however it can read the content of the CD, I would susgest you try a another CD-rom , borrow it from a friend. It works for me.

by the sounds of it your processor which is the brain of your computers is damaged you can either replace the motherboard of purchase a new computer because 8hrs is a long time for a installation

Try to boot the PC without the XP Home CD in the CD drive, and keep pressing the F8 key until it comes up with a boot menu that includes a Safe Mode option.

If you had the XP Pro CD I'd suggest doing a recovery, but XP Home doesn't have that option I don't think.

You may have to try a few times until the boot menu appears. Don't hold the F8 key down - keep pressing it!

When you get into Safe Mode, right click on My Computer and choose Properties. Then go to Hardware tab (i think - not in winXP right now) and choose device manager. Just remove the Video Card from the list altogether, and then restart. Should force it to use generic video card drivers.

then check your video card model and look for the updated driver

I haven't noticed any major malfunction in Y! Mail and I was there about 2 hours ago. One thought is that your AV may be clashing with Yahoo's own.If that isn't it you should look at what services and processes are running concurrent to your problem.

Just an afterthought, are you running a Beta or the classic version?

Try another powersupply, normarlly faulty powersupplies can cause problem similar to this one.

If all that you are doing is replacing the hard-drive then you only need to do the following as the Dell cases are a screwless design and only require you to:

• pop the case open,
• disconnect the drive and power cables, (noting these for reassembly later)
  
• push the green drive rail tabs inward toward the drive, and
• remove the drive from the case.

Next you'll need to replace the hard drive.
Tools needed:

• Philips head screwdriver, or
• Nut driver.

Procedure:

• Take the old hard drive to a flat space, ideally a workbench and unscrew the four mounting screws from the drive rails.
• Take your new hard drive out of its Anti-Static bag and begin to put the drive rails back on the new drive.
• If this is the only drive in the PC I suggest you set the drive to being the Master drive on the IDE bus. If you do not know what this means google the drive model (on the label on the hard-drive) and you'll find details of how to set up the drive to be the master on the IDE bus.
  

When the above procedure is complete you'll need to re-insert the drive back into computer case. That is simply reversing the procedure you used to take it out of the case.

Finally you'll need to reboot the computer and go into the BIOS to ensure that the drive is being seen and is of the correct size.
Lastly you'll need to pop in the OS CD-ROM and rebuild the system.
Note that on some of the early GX150's there was a problem with the firmware of the CD-ROM that allowed you to load the OS, reboot and then the installation would hang as the OS could not read the hardware due to an incompatibility. This can be solved by simply replacing the GX150 CD-ROM with another CD-ROM during the build and then putting the old CD-ROM back in place after the final reboot of the PC before you log on for the first time.

Hope this is of some help from a newby solution provider.
Sincerely
Andrew Martin

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.

Please see picture below

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.

Desktops PCs usually have a 'jumper' on the motherboard, inside of the PC, that resets the BIOS, removing the password but also changing some settings to their defaults. It takes some 'know how' but you can google it to help you locate it.