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Buggswamp
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 - Sep 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM
 buggswamp - Sep 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM
I have a Dell desktop with Dimension C251. Just changed the battery and followed steps to get rid do diskette drive 0 seek failure message. Still have no boot device detected message- how do I get rid of this so my computer will run?

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xpcman
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Sep 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM
This message is often caused by a faulty hard drive.
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buggswamp
Sep 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM
Well, couldn't be prouder of myself because I fixed it. I followed directions and went into F2 under drives and changes so the hard drive was #1 which it wasn't and then restarted. It worked and my favorite old computer is chugging right along.
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