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Posted by BigJim on April 11, 2008, 2:47 pm
Please log in for more thread options it is probably one of two things a bad drive or the controller on the
motherboard is bad or going bad.
I am leaning toward the bad drive since it will recognize you old drive.
Have you tried to do a repair install?
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> Hi all
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> I found the following message from a year ago, as I now have the same
> problem.
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> My hand-me-down CPx H laptop worked okay with a WD 120GB drive for about
> six months, then with a sequence of beeping errors, the BIOS (A15) won't
> now recognize the hard disk. If I put in my old hard disk, it will
> recognize it, but not my WD 120GB nor my warrantee WD 120GB replacement.
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> What was then and is now, the solution?
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> Where can I find the A16 BIOS update file?
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> tia
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> Ted
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> Date: 18 Mar 2007 23:18:46 -0700
> Local: Sun, Mar 18 2007 11:18 pm
> Subject: Dell Latitude CPx -- frozen BIOS (not a password issue)
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> Hi,
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> I have an old Dell Latitude CPx, running Win2000 and BIOS version A16
> -- the latest version. While recently trying to adjust some BIOS
> settings, I must have screwed something up. Now I can't get past the
> first BIOS page, and the laptop freezes -- the clock doesn't advance,
> I can't go to the next page, and can't exit. In addition, the Service
> Tag and Asset Tag are now blank, and the hard drive isn't
> "recognized." I must reboot, and if I don't try to access the BIOS,
> the laptop boots up just fine.
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> I tried reflashing the BIOS, with both the current version (A16) and
> the previous version (A15) -- no change. The flashing was attempted
> from both the floppy and from an executable. In fact, A15 didn't
> "take," although the DOS window said the update was successful. I
> also
> tried disconnecting and reconnecting the reserve CMOS battery -- no
> change.
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> Any suggestions on what else I should try?
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> TIA,
> Alex
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