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Dell Computers Fail to Boot Due To ‘Bad’ USB Connections
Yeah, this was a new one on me…we use Dell Optiplex GX280 workstations here at the library. We’ve had the usual PS and HD failures this year, but last week I had a station that stopped booting right after the Windows “progress bar” screen. It just sat there, a black screen with a blinking cursor, no POST, no nothing.
It turned out that a USB printer cable was not plugged in “all the way,” something I had never even considered. Since the backs of our workstations are very crowded with cabling, one of the USB cables was 1/2-way out of its jack. The USB controller had failed to start, stopping the boot in its tracks. Plugging in the cable again and restarting solved the problem.
Add comment March 4, 2008
