Drive only flashed green light

Test the electric motor that engages the transfer case.

Hello
This is due to a hard drive fault.Try removing the hard drive and reinstalling it.
Also while it is out, use a can of compressed air to blow all dust from your ps3.

If the above does not work your going to need a new hard drive.

its a common problem with intel D101GGC motherboard, just open the case and unplug the dvd power cable and data cable, then turn on the PC it will work fine.

i would say the hard drive needs replacing

Ok the lightning bolt is your power indicator: solid green-charging, Flashing green-fully charged, flashing red-low battery, flashing red three times the once green-bad battery. the "trash can" looking one is your hard drive activity indicator it will flash while your hard drive is reading and writing.

sounds like something is drawing down on your 12 volt supply drives or on board regulators. Try it without the drives connectged, and see if you can get the system to boot up(you'll just get a notice that your drives are unavailable, but you'll already know that, right?

got backup for your Dell?

hey i have had the same problem but i unplugged the tv for awhile about a half hour and then plug your tv into a different wall outlet if you can and should work. It worked for me, i had it plugged into a surge protector then i unplugged it from there, let it sit of half hour then plugged into different wall outlet and worked. so try that and see if it works.

i have a feeling its not the hard drive thats bad i think it sounds like the case .
you can try buying another case and transfering the hard drive to it the case is around $20.00

well the best thing i figured out to do was to purchase a new case. i think the case burned up. i pulled the hard drive out and hooked it up to another drive so to see if it would work. the drive works just fine in the other device, so i ordered another case.

Dear Crewchief Try deep freezing your drive, really, I mean freezing it for more than an hour, take it out and attach as a primary or secondary slave and see if it cycles up. Sure hope this helps.