20 Most Recent Dell OptiPlex 260 PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi,
If i understand you correctly, you are saying that the sound is not coming after you reinstalled windows. The problem could be beacuse of missing drivers

You can try downloading the drivers from the following webiste
http://tinyurl.com/29mjtbg

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Proton

please check if the you are using an on-board video card. if so, buy new video card base on your motherboard specs.

your power button is damaged

First pull out cmos cell from motherbord for 10 minutes .So all settings are defaults becaseu some times rong settings in bios create this problem.

Then check your cpu power supply unit. It is called SMPS is it working or not.
Try with other cpu SMPS unit.
Refix RAM memory to.

Clock the link below, download and install the Audio driver. Even if the driver already exists over write it.

All the best!

the driver for your model can be downloaded here . http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=PLX_PNT_P4_GX260&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid= there are several different kinds so your going to have to start the install to see which driver you need (windows should detect at least the adaptors brand)

Try un-installing Adobe Flash Player through Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

After it is completely removed, reboot your computer and then go to the Adobe site to re-install the latest version of Adobe Flash.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP

Hello,

My name is ArmyMason, I am here to help you. So you have an issue burning music to CD's. What is the format of the music? MP3, WMA, or WAV? Is the music protected by copyright in which doesn't allow you to burn it to CD? Right click on the song and click properties you will be able to see if its copyright protected there. Also some burning software only works with newer CD drives. I had an issue once burning a DVD with this software I bought because the DVD player wasnt supported. Once I upgraded the DVD Burner I was able to burn DVD's. Those are the only things that could be stopping you from burning music.

Hope that helps,
ArmyMason

try inserting your recovery disk. and make your cd rom your first boot device then press any key when you re-boot.

check your pc cmos batteryit might low. there might be shorting on board because of fungers on edges of ad on cards ormemory.please clean it

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.

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.

What are you talking about? Video card?

You are getting blue dump on start up or after booting in to the system