Bios screen freezes at startup

video bios test failure
best get a cheap 2nd hand video card and put it in to override motherboard

if you see lights get on Keyboard.. your motherboard is fine.. else it is your Keyboard or Super I/o Chip that is not working..

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Turn on your computer. If your computer is already on then reboot it. You need to see the initial display screen to get into the BIOS.

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Press the "F2" key when you see the initial screen displaying the BIOS provider information. If using the Optiplex and Dimension models, press the "DEL" key instead of the "F2" key.

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Enter password if required. When finished in the BIOS be sure to save your changes. For changes to take place you must reboot the computer.


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If the bios is password protected you will have to dump the bios batter first, then reconfigure the bois.

If your intentions is getting the pc in safe mode...u can do it by restarting the pc and tapping F8 key continuously...it will give u the options...else...check the boot order in bios...u can enter bios by using Tapping delete or F2 key after restarting the Computer

Go into your Bios/Setup, or Boot Menu, at startup, and change the Boot Order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the Boot Order, then reboot with the disk in the Drive.

At startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, to go into Bios/Setup, or F12 for the Boot Menu.

When you have changed that, insert that Bootable Disk you have made in the Drive, and reboot.

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try going into your BIOS and changing the boot sequence, it may be set to boot from floppy instead of harddrive. or you could just reinstall windows, but that sucks cuz then you lose all your data and programs. and not to be rude, but you shouldnt have bought a dell, they are full of problems.

Disconnect all external devices except the keyboard, monitor, mouse and network.

download a bios update from the dell support site. Update the bios, allow it to reboot. After you reboot, go back to the dell support site and download the latest chipset drivers for your system.

After you reboot one last time, that should do the trick.

change the settings in BIOS, while the computer restarts, quickly press F2 or the DEL key on your keyborad (it depends on the computer which button is to enter BIOS), there you can change the fan speed to work at which speed, but beware with the settings, you might spoil things up, find for Advanced settings tab and you may find it there.. was that helpful?

Ok, to get into the bios you need to hit F2 when the computer first starts up, when in the bios change boot order to CD drive, save settings and exit, the computer will reboot and you should be able to boot from CD. Any probz post back

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go to the bios setup and set the system bios default and restart. bye