Hi,
I have a Dell Inspiron One 2330, on the weekend when I tried to "wake" the computer to log in it and it froze, didn't even get a login screen. So I powered off (holding the power button), then after a minute or so I attempted to restart. The computer sounded to start booting up, fan noise, hard drive light flashing etc... However it never even gets to the dell splash screen! I have tried many times to restart to no avail. In some restarts the computer appears to attempt a self check as I see the screen flash from red to green to red seemingly performing a test.
so, what I can glean is that the machine has power, fan works, the screen appears fine at least from the fact that it flashes red, green, blue And I can see the hard drive light flashing like it is reading it... But for some reason does not get to the dell splash screen. I expect it is the bios boot that occurs before the splash screen is shown?
does anyone have any ideas what might be the problem and what I can do?