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HELP! Just ran decrapifier on wife's D600 Latitude, now wont boot......

post #1 of 5
4/14/07 at 9:14pm
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........crap, i just ran that decrapifier on her work laptop and now all it does it when you turn it on, the Dell screen comes up like its starting, the white bar fills 90% of the way across then is stuck there and wont do anything. Tried restarting it 5 times now by pushing the power button and nothing happens. any suggestions on what i can do to fix this?
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post #2 of 5
4/14/07 at 9:22pm
what OS are you running?-2k? what version of D*afier.... what were you trying to remove... Have you tried booting in safemode (F8 after the boot logo disappears)

Get back to us


...have you tried just letting it sit 10 minutes to see if it finally moves beyond the 90%?


We need to look at the event logs to see what is holding up the system.

...Have you disconnected ALL devices from the laptop, including USB, CD's...etc...?
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post #3 of 5
4/15/07 at 12:46am
doesn't sound like anything decrapifier did. Sounds like you had a coincidental hardware failure. What's happening is your Laptop isn't completing POST. Try these things:

Reseat memory
try each module of memory individually (if you have 2 modules)
remove the HDD and Optical drive (to see if it will complete POST then.
How long are you waiting before you're deciding it's stuck. My D820 can sometimes take a minute or two to complete POST if I hard reset it.
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post #4 of 5
4/15/07 at 1:08am
lol I was thinking the white win2k bar...not the POST bar. Also consider disconnecting the AC connection to your laptop. A malfunctioning AC adapter can cause long POSTS.

It can also happen when AC power is removed in the middle of a reset as well....


Let the laptop attempt to boot for 5 minutes and see if it clears itself.
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post #5 of 5
4/16/07 at 6:27pm
Part of that progress bar may be the initial stages of loading the OS (reading the boot records, all that stuff)... It's possible the crappifier did it.

You could always try booting off a live CD. If it works, it probably isn't a hardware issue.
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