Hi again everyone and thanks for the replies. I have checked the connections to the hard drive and evrything else visible and everything seemed good so here goes with what it gives me on set up from top down
dell dimension 8300 series
intel pentium 4 processor 2.66ghz
level 2 cache 512 intergrated
bios version AO1
service tag H9SQQ0J
SYSTEM TIME CORRECT
DATE CORRECT
DRIVE CONFIGURATION ENTER
HARD DISK DRIVE SEQUENCE ENTER
BOOT SEQUENCE ENTER
In fact everything else on the list is standard and they all say enter
I have now entered drive configuration and a box saying
diskette a/; 3.5inch 1.44 mb
sata primary drive unknown device
sata secondary drive unknown device
primary master drive " " " "
primary slave drive " " " "
secondary master drive cd-rom device
secondary slave drive " " " "
ide drive UDMA on
That is about as much as I can tell you on one occasion I managed somehow I do not how to get further in and it told me hard drive not found
I am only a beginner experience wise and also at typing woul you believe it has took me about 45 minutes to type this, anyway thanks everyone for your help and I hope I have given you enough info to make some sense out of. I realy could do with firing this system up as there a lot of info on it I need to recover Thanks again Chris |