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Question posted by tomkar1 on August 29th, 2012

Shutdown At Startup

Dell 531s running vista ----system does not boot, amber light stays on, boot disk in a or c drive has no effect motherboard gives one beep What part do I raplace, the mottherboard, the cpu or the memory,

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Answer #1: Posted by NiranjanvijaykumarAtDell on August 30th, 2012 4:45 AM

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Follow the link below to find the steps to run a basic hardware test. If you receive any error code, please associate it to the list given to confirm any hardware failure.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&docid=266787#Issue1

Follow the link below to understand the diagnostic beep codes and power lights indicator.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/inspd531/en/OM/trouble.htm

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