[kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600

[Stuart Seeley]

I've seen a bad ata disk cause that on similar model... smart status would pass but it would just cause this behavior until I got rid ofbit. I think there is a built in diagnostic if you hit F12 on post...

Stuart

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> On Jan 9, 2019, at 9:44 PM, Federer Fanatic <nafdef at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Just curious if anyone knows of a Dell expert that truly understands
> the nuances of Dell hardward with respect to the machine I mentioned
> in the subject line. The problem I am having is the machine don't boot
> consistently, i.e., sometimes the bios comes up other times nothing happens.
> My suspicision is the Dells are sensitive to the power coming into them
> that causes them to "sleep"--not sure what the terminology is.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
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