Recent content by smalltalker

Do you have any large external USB drives connected? If the external drive takes long to powerup than the windows recovery from sleep, it results in a BSOD. Not sure why Microsoft doesn't fix this known problem.

I hate to admit this in public but here goes. I ran into a similar problem a while back. Eventually, the problem was that 1) I was connecting the power switch connector to motherboard backwards (not sure if that was root cause). 2) I actually neglected to check the power supply switch / power...

Ok - Tried it. Removed fans, removed cpu heatsink - cleaned cpu and heatsink - removed all old dried out thermal grease - applied new silver thermal grease - reassembled (had to move heat sink around and attempt rebooting while nudging the heatsink). Eventually had to run a wire loop thru case...

The problem has returned. Found a new post about potential problem and solution. Haven't had a chance to try it out yet. But will post results once I try it. https://binglongx.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/dell-dimension-8400-boot-problem/

I had a similar problem earlier, several attempts at fixing eventually fixed the problem (after adding a new video card) but I was never sure if the video card was the problem. Then the problem occurred again (after a few months). So I was getting ready to pitch the computer when I read about...

Thought I'd update this thread a bit more. So things were going good and for some reason I decided to reset the bios. All of a sudden I have amber diagnostic lights (A and B amber with C and D green). Dell shows that as a memory problem. After a lot of cussing, testing memory one by one, and...

Solved - apparently it is a dead graphics card (Nvidia 6800 GTO)

Solved - Apparently its a dead graphics card.

Hello, I have a DELL XPS/Dimension XPS Gen 4. All diagnostic lights are green (A, B, C, D) Nvidia 6800 video card. Pentium 4 Prescott Dt, Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 3.4GHZ, 1 MEGB, 800FSB It is exhibiting similar behavior as in most other cases listed here (no beep, no video, all fans, drives...

Buy.com has XFX GeForce 7600GS PCI Express 256MB Video Card for $110 - $20 with Google Checkout - $25 rebate - $15 rebate = $50 http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203000306&adid=17662 Maybe that will make your decision a bit easier... Even though this is a GS not a GT :D