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by alihadi43

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I have a Dell deminsions 8200.the fan starts to work when turned on the stops and windows xp wont continue loadind

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by w2ktechman

does it POST? Can you get to the config (BIOS)?
If not, try resetting the BIOS
If it does not help, at what point does it stop working? Is it at the same place everytime, or random?
Does it start to load XP, or fail first?
If it starts to load XP, can you get into safe mode?
Have you added any HW recently? Removed anything? Power failure?

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by alihadi43

initialy i get an error messege :"previous fan error".i press F1 and then xp loads but the fan never runs.what would happen eventually?.

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by w2ktechman

If you are receiving a fan error, try looking over the fan. Make sure that it is plugged into the correct pins on the MB.

Which fan is it, the processor fan or case fan? If it is a case fan, many systems can continue working without it if it stays cool enough, if it is the processor fan, the system will heat quickly and the processor will shut the system down to prevent too much damage.

by hal 9000

There can be several involved. If it's the PS Fan then the most likely thing is that some part of the PS will overheat and burn out, if it's the CPU Fan then the CPU is going to get very hot and the safety systems will shut down the computer after cutting back on the duty cycles as much as possible.

If it's a case fan probably nothing as there is most likely not one fitted and someone has enabled this setting in BIOS.

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by pierrejamme

You may need a newer BIOS We have an 8100 here and Dell had a special XP BIOS for XP updates as it came with W98. The 8200 has a version 9 available at:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X13A1521E
and may be a similar issue. Did it come with W98 or XP?

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