When i go to boot it up the screen goes black

First test is put new harddrive in and when it goes to boot press Delete,
for entry to Setup, make sure new hard drive is found in equipment.
System equipment, if so then Put Operating disk in CD drive and check
check boot list , Put CD drive first then save and let boot up. It will automatically load the operating system back in the new hard drive.

As far as your saved material in old hard drive. You can check hard drive on second hard drive cable or with a USB adapter connection to
see if able to boot hard drive up and view files. If it works then you can
drag material from one window the desktop (To drag material just put mouse on file and left click-hold down button and move to desktop it will
automatically copy file to desktop.)

im only having a guess but i think it could be your ram is corrupt its known for the screen to go white when theres ram problems try taking out one of the sticks of ram and see does that sort it if not put that one back in and take out the other one if you only have one stick of ram then i would suggest bringing it to a store to get fixed it might not be any of these but its worth a try...look up youtube to see how to remove ram and dont remove it with the computer turned on and dont put it back in with the pc on either make sure its off and touch something metal before opening the pc to discharge any static...hope this helps

insert operating software DVD in your DVD drive
restart your Pc
press Del key (.)
select boot menu
select 1st boot device
black screen appears with "CD/DVD"
at that time press enter
screen appears with :DVD CD Boot...."
at that time select enter
software installation
custom install

Its the problem with hardware driver software. Please remove last installed software/hardware in your system. To remove software run system in safe mode by pressing F8 on system starting and select safe mode then remove last installed hardware by opening device manager or remove software by opening add remove program from the control panel.Then restart system.
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Hi,

If you have a Windows CD or DVD run Windows Recovery Console
Steps to do this
1.Boot from CD (change boot order accesing BIOS: tap F1,F2,F10 or delete key after rebooting)
2.Choose R to run Recovery Console
3.Type 1
4.Enter your admin password
5.Type: CHKDSK -r
6.Done

Also, If you dont have a CD, reboot and tap F8 to run in Safe Mode: Uninstall any software that may cause your system to malfuntion then reboot


Hope this help

To get in to bios you have to reboot and once screen turns black keep on pressing F2 key but dont hold it down but tap it and it will bring you in to bios menu. Some dell's use "Del" (delete) key so if this is the case just do same thing instead of tapping F2 just keep on tapping "Del" key. This will take you into bios. If this daris nuke does not work just put in your windows cd and reboot and on black screen just keep on tapping key F12 and this will ether give you boot menu to choose form and you need to choose cd or dvd rom or sometimes it will go in to it right away and it will say "press any key to boot from a cd-rom" so you can press any key on keyboard (like space bar) and then choose option to install windows and not repair, choose delete partition which is usually like couple screens(one is letter L and one is just delete) and then choose install windows and choose quick or normal format. Once formatting is done it will start the new install. Good luck.

The operating system is corrupted you have reinstall you windows xp , you have insert the xp boot cd in the cd rom after that the option will be aksing to (press any key to boot from cd..) at that time you have press any key then the booting will be started.

Hi,

Go to this site: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

and download the Latest release is 080802 (2008-08-02)

burn image to cd, then boot with this cd then follow instruction in readme file

this will fix your problem for sure !

You need to update your video card or your drivers software. Another possibility is you do not have enough RAM Memory installed. Look into how much memory you have and see if you need to upgrade it. I hope this helps.

Hi there
hey if you boot into bios and you need to make sure that the computer will recognize the hard drive and that the jumper that is on the hard drive is set as either master or slave depending on what you want than make sure that of the parameters are right and apply it. than restart the computer and than see if the cd will now boot and you should be able to continue from here ok
best regards mike