INSPIRON 8000 - Nobootable services

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Hard drive has died.
The fixed optical drive is the slave drive off the hard drive. When the
(master) hard drive isn't found it then doesn't find the optical drive.
http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/sy [...] /index.htm

"ooha" <ooha@imagination.com> wrote in message
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> I have run out of warranty on this DELL 8000 INSPIROn (and they wont
extend
> it). I have this major problem. When you power- 'Primary hard Disk Drive
> not found- Fixed Optical Drive not found- No bootable devices- strike F1
to
> retry boot- F2 for set up utility.
> After a 100 times trying to reboot- (after 5 to 6 days) it rebooted back
as
> if nothing happened and worked fine for a month. I have this problem again
> Any help? Any suggestions?
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