Hello.
I have a Dell GX280 which bought a month ago as a used unit. The problem has occured about 1 weeks ago. When the system boots up, it does not find a primary SATA harddisk. "There is no primary harddisk" Whenever it shows me the messege, I restart the system and then go to system diagnosis which check the harddisk by Dell BIOS. The result is always fine and then the system boots up normally. Once it boots up, everything is normal. I can turn off and on without the booting problem.
Another wired thing is that there is no problem within 1 hour since the computer has turned off. There is certain time gap. Once I used the computer in the morning and turned it off, the problme come back to in the evening.
The SATA cable was replaced but nothing different.
The hard disk is fine by checking the diagnosis.
Can you help me out?
**System Summary**
Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX280
Board: Dell Inc. 0XF964
Serial Number: ..CN1374062E003S.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A08 03/03/2006
2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Hyper-threaded (2 total)
2040 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM4' has 1024 MB
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 249.96 GB 193.43 GB free
WDC WD2500JD-75HBB0 [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n
g: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.11 GB 80.85 GB free
Seagate FreeAgentDesktop USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family [Display adapter] (2x)
Thanks.
I have a Dell GX280 which bought a month ago as a used unit. The problem has occured about 1 weeks ago. When the system boots up, it does not find a primary SATA harddisk. "There is no primary harddisk" Whenever it shows me the messege, I restart the system and then go to system diagnosis which check the harddisk by Dell BIOS. The result is always fine and then the system boots up normally. Once it boots up, everything is normal. I can turn off and on without the booting problem.
Another wired thing is that there is no problem within 1 hour since the computer has turned off. There is certain time gap. Once I used the computer in the morning and turned it off, the problme come back to in the evening.
The SATA cable was replaced but nothing different.
The hard disk is fine by checking the diagnosis.
Can you help me out?
**System Summary**
Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX280
Board: Dell Inc. 0XF964
Serial Number: ..CN1374062E003S.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A08 03/03/2006
2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Hyper-threaded (2 total)
2040 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM4' has 1024 MB
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 249.96 GB 193.43 GB free
WDC WD2500JD-75HBB0 [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n
g: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.11 GB 80.85 GB free
Seagate FreeAgentDesktop USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family [Display adapter] (2x)
Thanks.
