I am working on a friend of mines old Dell OptiPlex 280 Pentium 4 with XP professional on it. I determined the mother board was fried from reading some other forums. (capacitors were busted) I bought another Dell OptiPlex off of Ebay running XP home and was going to just switch some of the compters components. I don't know if I've screwed myself up or what. I've tried adding RAM and different hard drives. I can't get the new hard drive to boot at all now, I can get the hard drive from the old dell to boot, but the keyboard will not let me hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE to log into Windows XP Pro. I'm kind of at a lost for what to do? I thought if I put the memory from the old computer into the new with the old memory and hard drive it would allow me to just start the system up. I guessed wrong. I can only get it to boot and lock me at the login screen. Where am I going wrong? I would appreciate any knowledge in this area please. Just trying to get this to him so he can do his tax stuff. Thanks,db
Two Dell Optiplex 280 running XP trying to switch guts to get one working PC
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- Feb 18, 2010
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Well I can't be sure what you are doing wrong. Are the boards exactly the same? Try a ps2 keyboard for control alt delete if not already. Good luck. If you can get into the newer one, add his hard drive to it so he can access his files.
I have switched the hard drives. It's still not letting me into the old hard drive. I have switched the RAM if I try to boot off of new hard drive it says no system found? I will try the PS/2 option and let you know if it works. I'm baffled by being locked out of the OS will the system automatically adjust for adding and removing RAM?
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