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by dkearney

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I have a Dell 8250. When I turn it on, I get the initial screen that allows me to go to setup or boot menue and then goes blank. I have tried hitting F2 and F12 to get to setup and boot, but the screen remains blank. I get an initial flicker of the hard drive and then the light goes out. Even thhough I have the original windows disk in the CD drive, it fails to access it.

Any ideas?

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by gary56789

and tap the F8 key every second or two. If all goes well, you should eventually get a screen with a menu (stop tapping the key now). With the cursor (arrow) keys, select Safe Mode if you get there and press the Enter key.

Whatever happens, let us know. Someone should get back to you.

by mjd420nova

If the screen goes blank and the hard drive initalizes but then stops, it sounds like a power supply failure.

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