Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: bladeuk on February 21, 2007, 07:01:48 AM
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Hi
can you help me please?
- I have a dell inspiron 2200 - year 2005, i lost the BIOS password about a year ago. asked a friend to have a look at it, he thought by removing the bios battery the problem would be solved, but it didnt work with dell. he had the laptop in pieces and put it back together after not solving the prob. he broke one of the chips for the battery and is now held by a piece of paper.
I have just found the bios pass in my old note pad book, i took the bios and admin pass off. after switching the bios pass off there was a note on screen saying that a part on system bay was not being recognised or needed to be placed/pushed into place correctly, kept saying the same thing everytime i turned pc on, so i took it apart and the only thing i could think of was the bios battery, so i modyfied the paper holding it and is now making contact on the side and bottom. put it back together, the message about system tray does not appear anymore but it now says - when the blue line on top appears(dell.com) -
0 active partitions
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when i click enter it goes blank then 0 active partitions appears again
when i click enter again it says on screen:
0 active partitions
no bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
if i click F1 it repeats the same thing above
when i click F2 setup utility screen comes up
and if i hold power button on and off it boots but same thing happens.
dell has a PC RESTORE (format c) built in by SYMANTEC and its done when pc turns on - ctlr+F11. i tried that and it says on screen
cannot restore
the lock icon light with number 9 on it stays on at all times when pc is on.
The only way then to turn pc off is by pressing and holding the power button.
Is there a way to sort this out? if there was damage to motherboard when it was open to pieces, can the motherboard be disconnected then connected again so it recognise it?
can it be that the hard drive is damaged?
many thanks
blade
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Is there a way to sort this out? if there was damage to motherboard when it was open to pieces, can the motherboard be disconnected then connected again so it recognise it?
can it be that the hard drive is damaged?
Both of these scenarios are possible...this sounds like a trip to a service center where they can advise further...laptops aren't designed with user repair options taken into consideration.