Dell Dimension 3000 Support Question
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Question posted by onodd on February 21st, 2014
How Can You Tell If The Hard Drive Is Bad On My Dell Dimension 3000
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Owner's Manual - Page 1
Dell™ Dimension™ 3000
Owner's Manual
service tag
CD or DVD drive activity light
CD or DVD eject button
floppy drive light
power light power button USB 2.0 connectors (2)
floppy drive eject button hard-drive activity light
headphone connector
Model DMC
power connector voltage selection switch serial connector integrated video connector keyboard connector line-out connector* ...
Owner's Manual - Page 2
... in this document is strictly forbidden.
To access the help file, see the Dell Dimension Help file. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you make better use of Microsoft Corporation. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either the entities...
Owner's Manual - Page 6
...6
Contents Only 87 Definition of "Dell-Installed" Software and Peripherals 87 Definition of "Third-Party" Software and Peripherals 88 FCC Notices (U.S. Hard Drive 64 Removing a Hard Drive 64 Installing a Hard Drive 66
Floppy Drive 67 Removing a Floppy Drive 67 Installing a Floppy Drive 68
CD/DVD Drive 69 Removing a CD/DVD Drive 70 Installing a CD/DVD Drive 71 Adding a Second CD or...
Owner's Manual - Page 8
... tips, articles
from technicians, and online courses • Community -
Upgrade information for devices (such as memory, the hard drive, and the operating system • Customer Care - Drivers, patches, and software updates • Reference - The Dell Support website provides several online tools, including: • Solutions - The Express Service Code is not available in all...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
... a CD-RW/DVD combo drive and you have inserted your computer or backing up important data.
NOTE: The types of CD or DVD drives offered by Dell may not read your source CD... DVD into the drive and click OK.
• If you have two CD or DVD drives, select the drive into which you experience recording problems, check for available software patches on your computer hard drive. Use blank CD...
Owner's Manual - Page 18
...sound is defective. • Insert a bootable floppy disk and restart the computer. TU R N O F F S T A N D B Y M O D E I N W I N D O W S B E F O R E W R I T I S C - See the Dell Dimension Help file (see page 7) or search for information on page 29. See the Dell Dimension Help file.
The CD/DVD-RW drive must receive a steady stream of your screen. • Ensure that the volume is turned up...
Owner's Manual - Page 19
...it is not available on all computers.)
Solving Problems
19 If you begin any of bad sectors. 7 Click Start. Follow the instructions on the modem. (The jack has either...ft) or more in the Product Information Guide. Click the Start button, point to an analog telephone jack only. Hard drive problems
RUN CHECK DISK - 1 Click the Start button and click My Computer. 2 Right-click Local Disk C:....
Owner's Manual - Page 24
...reinstall the program. BACK UP YOUR FILES IMMEDIATELY
USE A VIRUS-SCANNING PROGRAM TO CHECK THE HARD DRIVE, FLOPPY DISKS, OR CDS
SAVE AND CLOSE ANY OPEN FILES OR PROGRAMS AND SHUT DOWN ... Verify that the program is compatible with the
memory (see page 53). • Run the Dell Diagnostics (see page 36).
24
Solving Problems See
the software documentation for minimum memory requirements. IF ...
Owner's Manual - Page 34
A possible floppy or hard drive failure has occurred. ABCD
Reinstall all power and data cables and restart the computer.
ABCD
= ... modules that you are installing are compatible with your computer (see page 53).
• If the problem persists, contact Dell (see page 89). Reseat all USB devices, check cable connections, and then restart the computer.
Light Pattern ABCD
ABCD
Problem...
Owner's Manual - Page 35
...; The operating system is an error message on your computer.
• If the problem persists, contact Dell (see page 53).
• If there is attempting to the system board from a device (such as the floppy drive or hard drive); Light Pattern ABCD
Problem Description
A possible expansion card failure has occurred. Another failure has occurred.
Owner's Manual - Page 40
... restore point that is unsuccessful, then use System Restore. • Dell PC Restore by Symantec restores your hard drive to the operating state it was in when you can use it to restore... your operating system. Dell PC Restore permanently deletes all data on the hard drive.
To access the Windows Help and Support Center, see and select restore...
Owner's Manual - Page 41
....
PC Restore restores your hard drive to the operating state it was in all countries or on the hard drive and removes any files or... programs until the system restoration is not available in when you can either repeat the steps using PC Restore.
To use PC Restore:
1 Turn on . To change the restore point, you purchased the computer. Using Dell...
Owner's Manual - Page 42
... you do not log on as a local administrator. Click Finish and let the computer completely reboot. 6 When prompted, click Yes. Removing Dell PC Restore
NOTICE: Removing Dell PC Restore from the hard drive permanently deletes the PC Restore utility from your computer's operating system. It is no partition to delete. 4 Click OK to return...
Owner's Manual - Page 43
... computer. Reinstalling Windows XP
The reinstallation process can overwrite files and possibly affect programs installed on the hard drive.
6 Right-click Local Disk (C) in before you need the following items: • Dell™ Operating System CD • Dell ResourceCD
NOTE: The ResourceCD contains drivers that the additional disk space is added to return your...
Owner's Manual - Page 66
... that it is configured for your computer. 3 Remove the hard drive bracket (see page 64). 4 Attach the hard drive to the hard drive bracket:
a Place the small bracket tabs into the drive slots inside the bracket for the additional hard drive. See the documentation for instructions.
15 Test the hard drive by running the Dell Diagnostics (see page 36). 16 If the...
Owner's Manual - Page 80
... at 0.5 octave/min 2.20 Grms at 10 to 500 Hz at 1 octave/min
105 G, 2 ms 32 G with a velocity change of hard drive installed Before you use system setup, it is 914 m (3000 ft). -15.2 to 10,670 m (-50 to 10,000 ft) NOTE: At 30°C (95°F), the maximum operating altitude is...
Owner's Manual - Page 85
...restart) your keyboard.
Then shut down your computer (see the Microsoft Windows desktop.
The BIOS detects the device and adds the USB flash option to it. To... Setup, F12 = Boot Menu appears in the computer, the computer generates an error message.
• Hard Drive - Numlock Key
OS Install POST Hotkeys Keyboard Errors
This option involves the rightmost bank of the screen, ...
Owner's Manual - Page 107
...59 slots, 49, 56 types supported, 56
CD/DVD drive activity light, 47 eject button, 47 installing, 71 installing second, 71 problems, 18 removing, 70
CD-RW drive problems, 18
CDs, 14
Check Disk, 19
computer ... 14
cover cover latch, 49 removing, 50 replacing, 75
D
Dell contacting, 89 Dell Diagnostics, 36 Dell Dimension Help file, 7 support policy, 87 support site, 8
diagnostic lights, 33
diagnostics...
Owner's Manual - Page 108
... eject button, 47 installing, 68 removing, 67
front panel insert, 61 removing, 60
H
hard drive activity light, 47 installing, 66 problems, 19 removing, 64
hardware Dell Diagnostics, 36
Hardware Troubleshooter, 44 headphone
connector, 47 Help and Support Center, 8 help file
Dell Dimension Help, 7 Windows Help and Support
Center, 8 Hyper-Threading, 16
internet connection, about, 12...
Owner's Manual - Page 109
..., 27 setting up, 9 USB, 9
problems battery, 17 blue screen, 23 CD drive, 18 CD-RW drive, 18 computer crashes, 22-23 computer stops responding, 22 Dell Diagnostics, 36 diagnostic lights, 33 drives, 17 DVD drive, 18 e-mail, 19 error messages, 20 general, 22 hard drive, 19 IEEE 1394, 21 Internet, 19 keyboard, 22 memory, 24 modem, 19...
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