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Join Date: Nov 2006
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OS: Win 98
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Dell laptop
I have an older Dell laptop with a Pentium ll processor, I had a loose connection on the back side of the screen, I repaired it and when I booted up it gave me a Blue message screen with white writing on it, part of which said remove the last hardware installed.
I can't get past this message, I purchased an external enclosure and I can access this HD from my other Dell Laptop, so the HD is working. How do I get the laptop to bootup? Thanks; Roger |
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Try starting in safe mode by tapping F8 once per second when you turn on your computer. From the safe mode menu, choose "Disable automatic restart on system failure". If you finish booting into safe mode, great, if not, post the blue screen error.
If you are able to boot: right click my computer>properties>advanced>startup and recovery settings>uncheck automatically restart under system failure. Next :Start>run>type in msconfig click the boot.ini tab>check the bootlog option. save and exit. Reboot your computer. hopefully the blue screen error will tell us what's wrong. If not, restart in safe mode, and read bootlog.txt in the root directory |
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