Larry provides great information.
Larry Ng Apr 30, 2022
good news the not told at all PC screen is not dead.
a major fact but lacks all evidence like:
1, No PC told no OS told xp to w11
2: fans spin? all do, psu ,cpu and gpu card if fan.
3: Optiplex is a desktop 29 years of models made wow.
4: you mean Dell Splash logo. yes, and then it does the post bar, if post bar stalls that means hardware gross errors.
sadly no PC model told of vast versions. wow.
just wow hopeless that.? but is par here, and vast wrong answers just for that fact alone.even mine.
i have many optiplex PC here old and new and my fav is 9020MT or smaller my oldest is 380(in storage)
is your coin cell dead. (if yes can NOT be ignored)
my dells all have F12 diagnostics,
power on and hammer F12,, pick diag eSPA and run it
older PCs dell if the HDD is dead the F12 diag is dead. due to being located there back long ago.
my dells have a BIOS log page,
go to BIOS the click tab, LOG
read the logs. see what fails. (coin cell RTC sure)_
easy no?\
but why on earth post lacking the model number
making any useful simple help 10 pages long for 29years of models.
1993 is the first OptiPlex, seen here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_OptiP...
nobody can guess
and no era is the same. evolution max.
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