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Sarjenka · 08-06-2006, 02:45 PM

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 running WinXP. My issues have been mounting. First I had error message PXE-E05. Then my cd drive started working intermittently, so I couldn't boot from the cd. Then I can't get into my BIOS. Now computer only starts randomly. During 1 of these lucky times, I tried to flash my BIOS, but it said "unable to obtain required information about your system." On most occasions, when I try to reboot (oh yeah, when I try to restart, it shuts down completely??), machine gets to logo screen and right to a black screen with cursor blicking in top left corner. HELP???!!!!!!

08-06-2006, 02:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sarjenka Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 2 OS: WinXP	Computer won't POST I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 running WinXP. My issues have been mounting. First I had error message PXE-E05. Then my cd drive started working intermittently, so I couldn't boot from the cd. Then I can't get into my BIOS. Now computer only starts randomly. During 1 of these lucky times, I tried to flash my BIOS, but it said "unable to obtain required information about your system." On most occasions, when I try to reboot (oh yeah, when I try to restart, it shuts down completely??), machine gets to logo screen and right to a black screen with cursor blicking in top left corner. HELP???!!!!!!