Dell 4300 wont boot up

Alan Spicer

• 127 Answers
• Posted on Jul 07, 2009

SOURCE: Alert! previous attempts at booting this system

I'm not sure right off hand what the WRIT means. But other articles online seem to think that you should hit F2 at boot and check the Boot Order. One guy set it to CD and booted a CD (a bootable one) fine. I would make sure it set to the first Hard Drive. He also said something about: went to the "event log" section and cleared the last event (actually the only one showing). I saved the settings, then booted up again and this time it booted up normally.

* Anyway new hardware external or internal would be 1st suspect in this kind of thing. One person had problems after adding a new printer that had a memory card in it. Apparently the Dell tried to boot from the memory card.

SOURCE: Dell 8400. previous attempts at booting this

It is a Hardware error, and my be associated with the following components.

1. Memory. Try Memory modules individually, see if you can get the system to boot normally with one or more modules, if you ID a defective one, replace it.
2. Motherboard. It is possible, that if all combinations of the memory produce change that a failure has occurred in the motherboard. A swollen capacitor is a likely failure.
3. The hard drive has a cache module, it is possible this memory is defective.
4. The Processor (Least likely as they almost never fail.)
   

swufabuda

• 219 Answers
• Posted on Aug 06, 2010

SOURCE: my dell dimension 4300 displays

make sure you keyboard is plugged in well. If that doesn't help try a different keyboard.