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optiplex gx 270 Posts 4 Registration date Sunday August 23, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 24, 2009 - Aug 24, 2009 at 08:21 AM
sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 - Aug 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Hello,

I recently got a dell optiplex gx270 from a friend with everything except a hdd.
I had a UPC/NTL/Chorus recorder box with a 160GB hdd inside so I put that in to the PC and connected it up and set the jumper 2 away from the ide cable. When I go into the BIOS I’m pretty sure that everything is set correctly as the HDD is set to the primary and 160GB shows up. The problem is when I try to boot off the cd to install XP I get the error message “strike F1 to retry” and it does nothing I even changed the cd drive and its still the same. Can any one help I really don’t know what to do…
Is there a problem with the HDD it has 40pin (ide)and 4 pin(jumper) and power
Thanks in Advance.. Liam
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Aug 24, 2009 at 08:47 AM
have you set the cdrom as boot device.

you need to go into bios and set the boot order so that the cdrom is before the hdd.
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optiplex gx 270 Posts 4 Registration date Sunday August 23, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 24, 2009
Aug 24, 2009 at 08:59 AM
Hi Sharpman,
ya this is how i have it det up I have the cd-rom as 1st
HDD as 2nd
Floopy 3rd

Liam
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optiplex gx 270 Posts 4 Registration date Sunday August 23, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 24, 2009
Aug 24, 2009 at 08:59 AM
Hi Sharpman,
ya this is how i have it det up I have the cd-rom as 1st
HDD as 2nd
Floopy 3rd

Liam
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Aug 24, 2009 at 09:15 AM
what you need to do is set the jumper on the hdd to master. normally the ones closest to the data cable - furthest from the power cable.

is this the only item on the cable?

set the hdd to master and any others to slave.
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optiplex gx 270 Posts 4 Registration date Sunday August 23, 2009 Status Member Last seen August 24, 2009
Aug 24, 2009 at 09:59 AM
I tried that even took the jumper off altogether still wont work :-(
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Aug 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM
are we sure that the cd is infact bootable?

what happens if you disconnect the hdd and try booting the pc with the cd in the drive
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