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Posts: 190
Join Date: Mar 2009
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![]() Does it still BEEP? That means it is failing the POST (power on self test). The BEEPs are an error code which will stear you in the right direction.
I would open the bottom and re-seat your RAM, and anything else that could be loose. P.S. Remove the battery and powercord before you go removing or re-seating the RAM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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![]() Twice now I've tried Windows 7 on my Dell Mini and within 1 week, each time, the HDD fails, confirmed by Dell's diagnostic.
The first time was several months ago and I got a replacement drive from Dell and switched to XP. Windows 7 goes retail and I am now on hold with tech support to get another drive replacement. I wiped XP from it and put 7 on it about 5 days ago. Someone tell me that this is not a coincidence! |
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Posts: 22
Join Date: Jun 2009
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![]() I've been running Windows 7 for over a week now... so far so good... hope this doesn't happen to me
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Posts: 6
Join Date: Mar 2009
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![]() Well, have had my 8g mini9 for about 2 years now, and the other day I tried installing a version of win7 home premium that I stripped down with vlite, now I'm getting the dreaded no operating system found message, and 0mb drive displayed in the bios. I was running win7 pro on the drive before without any problems, the only reason I was changing was to try to save some space with a lighter version of win7.
Have there been any updates on this problem? It sounds like a bug with the firmware and/or bios rather than it simply failing under stress. It seems to frequently happen during new installations of an OS, and in my case, at least, it happened before the SSD was actually stressed with the reading/writing that happens during the installation process. That being said, is there any way to save the drive, or is it simply time to buy a replacement drive? Any other time I'd be happy to just have an excuse to upgrade a component, but money is a little tight right now, and it be nice if there were a way around this. |
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Posts: 605
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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![]() Adhesive, sorry to say, it's dead. I think I was the first one here to post about it.
May want to look in the For Sale forum thread here to save some money. |
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Posts: 2,902
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Upstate New York, U.S of A.
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![]() I have been dual booting Win XP Pro and Win 7 Ult for over a year now and not a single issue...I basically use Win 7 Ult..cant remember the last time I booted into XP Pro
iPad 4 (64gb) w/Retina,Targus Versavu Case |
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Posts: 605
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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![]() Several of the stock SSD drives failed. I had a 16G stock drive but luckily it was under warranty and they shipped it to me.
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