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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 888186" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>Replacement DVD writer in place and it now boots up from the Windows CD, done the 'press 'R' ' and 'fixboot' and she's now lighting up in the normal XP home environment. Still crashing every now and then though. </p><p></p><p>There are only two fans on the Dimension 5000 and both are fine, the heatsink is nicely bonded to the 3.8 GHz CPU, though interestingly none of the other Dell cpus I have here - 2.4 and 2.8GHz work in the machine when I replace them (yes they are the same pin cofiguration).</p><p></p><p>More alarmingly the PC appears to run fine , ie no crashing as yet - when in safe mode.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 888186, member: 175144"] Replacement DVD writer in place and it now boots up from the Windows CD, done the 'press 'R' ' and 'fixboot' and she's now lighting up in the normal XP home environment. Still crashing every now and then though. There are only two fans on the Dimension 5000 and both are fine, the heatsink is nicely bonded to the 3.8 GHz CPU, though interestingly none of the other Dell cpus I have here - 2.4 and 2.8GHz work in the machine when I replace them (yes they are the same pin cofiguration). More alarmingly the PC appears to run fine , ie no crashing as yet - when in safe mode. [/QUOTE]
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