Inspiron 1150 hangs in POST?

A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

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Nigel M

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Nigel Molesworth wrote:
A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

I'm not sure if we understand each other's terminology. POST = Power On Self
Test, a set of firmware run by the motherboard BIOS to assure that the hardware
is in reasonable operating state BEFORE the operating system begins to load.

If the computer is hanging during POST, this is a symptom of a potentially
serious hardware error.

If the computer hanging after POST while starting up Windows, there are a myriad
of possible causes... Ben Myers

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:27:07 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
wrote:

A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

That stops the BIOS screen? That would be odd.

I'd guess a motherboard battery first.

Tom
"Jay B" wrote in message
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Nigel Molesworth wrote:
A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

also unplug any usb devices.
could be hanging on a device if really still in post.

Nigel Molesworth wrote:
A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

I agree. My 8400 would hang toward the end of the scroll bar (Dell logo
screen) if I had a USB thumb drive plugged in. A friend's computer did the
same thing if he had his USB camera plugged in.




"Jay B" wrote in message
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also unplug any usb devices.
could be hanging on a device if really still in post.

Nigel Molesworth wrote:
A friend's Inspiron 1150 suddenly rebooted, and now hangs about 2/3
way through the POST. Pressing F2 brings up the Starting Setup
message, but it still hangs in the same place. Any ideas?

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Nigel M

There are a couple of things you can try.


Yank the battery, and power cord. Wait a few minutes, try again.

If that doesn't cure it, you have an actual hardware problem of some
kind. Bad hard drives have been known to intefere with proper post. You
can see if reseating the RAM helps any.

Can one assume that the Inspiron 1150, if it needs all the usb
devices disconnected, can not boot to a usb drive?

later.....

"Brian K" iibntgyea4 wrote in
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I agree. My 8400 would hang toward the end of the scroll bar (Dell logo
screen) if I had a USB thumb drive plugged in. A friend's computer did the
same thing if he had his USB camera plugged in.

"Jay B" wrote in message
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also unplug any usb devices.
could be hanging on a device if really still in post.

No, my computer which froze with an ordinary USB thumb drive would boot to a
bootable USB thumb drive.


"***** charles" wrote in message
. net...
Can one assume that the Inspiron 1150, if it needs all the usb
devices disconnected, can not boot to a usb drive?

On 23 Oct 2006 17:28:00 -0700, wrote:

You can see if reseating the RAM helps any.

Did that, and there is nothing connected.

I think it could be a keyboard problem, but I can't see any "K" screws
to remove, any ideas?

Out of interest, where is the HD on this model?


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Nigel M