The dvd drive on my Dell Optiplex 780 SFF just failed and the process to replace it took less time that it did to take the pc out of the computer desk and remove all the connecting wires and not a single screwdriver was needed!
My 4700 with identical configration still works well, apart from the unbearably noisy fan. And that dvd-drive-won't-spin-up-during-booting problem bothers me as well. Instead of beating it, I found out that unfolding the top five categories in the bios then going back to "Boot Sequence" and exiting would usually solve it. Maybe I should try your way next time XD. My computer hates me anyhow. It seems that dell removed their stored sevice tags of some old models this year, I tried my tag and got the same message. X300SE was a pretty pointless card when it was new and now without hardware video decoding function, it's utterly useless, when compared to it's successor like X1300 or even 7200GS which is a worse card in regard to 3d performance but can accelerate video frame rate to an acceptable level, Quite useful when paired to an old CPU like P4 and watching youtube videos.
this computer was trying so hard to boot up. i have a 4700 myself, but it hasnt been used in 13 years. and nowadays, its just sitting under the desk collecting dust while our HP compaq 8100 hard drive is being tortured by windows 10.
9:49 okay, i have a funny ass story to tell. so you heard that whirring noise, correct? well, there was a time when i wanted to see "what would happen if i put a ps4 disc in the family HP compaq 8100". my dad switched it over to windows 10 since windows 10 came out about a year after he bough the computer, and the thing is practically toruring the hard drive. its slow and laggy, and is just.. shit. anyway, i put the ps4 disc in the computer, and waited about 10 seconds, nothing came up. so i waited about 10 more seconds, and nothing still didnt come up. i was about to take the disc out when OUT OF NOWHERE, i started hearing a whirring noise similar to this dell 4700, but it was much louder. i then remmembered my friend telling me about how when he was playing on his Ps2 slim, he heard a little scratching sound and then the door popped open and the disc flew out nearly taking his head off, and it cut off some of his hair. so i jumped under the desk and waited for it to stop, and it did. but that moment scared the shit out of me, because i thought the computer was either going to explode, or eject the disc at light speed LOL
If your goal is to recover photos, pull the drive, and put it in a external enclosure, or a known good system and clone it before you do anything else. Once the drive is cloned, you can recover the photos from the cloned drive and you would save yourself about a few hours of time.
@@I430VX If the drive was unresponsive or failing possibly. But then you could just move to cloning the partition Wich should not take more than 10 minutes. This video was 20 minutes and I'm sure you edited it down. I'm not correcting you or claiming my way is right. I'm just offering information. Ultimately it's your call. Cheers. Have a good day.
Yeah, the drive is failing for sure. The grand total of bad sectors (thus far, it goes up half the time I scan it) reaches several megabytes. I made an attempt at cloning but it looked like it was going to take forever because it was tripping up on the (not yet marked) bad sectors... I could imagine cloning a drive of good health taking only a little while.
@@I430VX Spinrite is pricey but it does a good job of cleaning up drives, the down side is it can take upwards of 14 to 15 hours depending on the level of attention you choose. To date it has not failed to either clean up the drive enough to clone it, and/or mark the missing sectors and make the drive usable again.
I have the Dimension 4700 and it wont even boot up anymore. The first time I tried, It showed "128 BIOS" (all i could remember from it) and then the second time I pressed the button, it just popped and shut off. I've never worked with Old computers before. My limit is 2015 and above.
@@I430VX Nope, I think its because the previous owner installed thousands of viruses not knowingly and gave them to my friend and my friend said he will give a whole bunch if computers to me for testing, destruction, and personal use
I have one of these and the tower turns on is running but the screen is black/not displaying??? All the cords are attached and plugged in (I triple checked) and the screen is still black??? Please help 🙏
@@bradturner385 I took my computer in to the local computer repair guy and he fixed it pretty easy.. Something burned out in there, I guess but he just switched it out and fixed it for me. He charged me $100 tho
Dell keeps deleting service tags from their site.Can't find the info on my Insprion 4000 or 8500. It worked when i typed in the service tag to my Optiplex 755 and it worked. Surprisingly it was shipped from Canada. Guess the owner moved to the US and decided to sell it on ebay, where my brother bought it. It was his before mine, he downgraded to a Dimension 3000 that he destroyed. Had a Celeron.
Ughhhhh, windows xp in 2018, hard drive sounds like it couldn't be trusted with even my useless folder... You should've replaced that harddrive before returning it back to the customer that is if you had permission...
windows xp (and 2000) is my main operating systems today, shush :P but yeah idk what was up with the hard drive... customer didnt want the PC back, i still have it, the HDD still works, hasn't had any more issues but i still certainly don't trust it very much
I, Litterally Have The Same 🖤 Pc In My Basement I Want To Become A Pc Gamer I’ve been playing on a PS4 for like 2 years now on 🖤 60fps I just wanna play pc ,
I430VX I went and got anew one installed it. But still shuts off and turns on. It won't allow me to install disks that came with computer to boot up. ?
interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for electronic repair parts try Saankramer Electronic Magazine System ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my mate got amazing success with it.
Pretty interesting to watch even though I have no tech skills
for the first time youtube recommended me a channel that I wiil enjoy watching
The fact that you got it to work amazes me
I used to have that exact computer, needless to say I build my own now
I have a Dell Dimension 4700. In fact, I'm using it right now.
Does it lag or anything
So I just got an old computer from work that they were gonna throw out and here I randomly find this video with the exact same computer
Good to remember then work past.
The dvd drive on my Dell Optiplex 780 SFF just failed and the process to replace it took less time that it did to take the pc out of the computer desk and remove all the connecting wires and not a single screwdriver was needed!
I had a computer pretty similar to this one the cmos battery was died but a side from that it worked like brand new
I got one of them compoopers 😂
My 4700 with identical configration still works well, apart from the unbearably noisy fan. And that dvd-drive-won't-spin-up-during-booting problem bothers me as well. Instead of beating it, I found out that unfolding the top five categories in the bios then going back to "Boot Sequence" and exiting would usually solve it. Maybe I should try your way next time XD. My computer hates me anyhow.
It seems that dell removed their stored sevice tags of some old models this year, I tried my tag and got the same message.
X300SE was a pretty pointless card when it was new and now without hardware video decoding function, it's utterly useless, when compared to it's successor like X1300 or even 7200GS which is a worse card in regard to 3d performance but can accelerate video frame rate to an acceptable level, Quite useful when paired to an old CPU like P4 and watching youtube videos.
this computer was trying so hard to boot up. i have a 4700 myself, but it hasnt been used in 13 years. and nowadays, its just sitting under the desk collecting dust while our HP compaq 8100 hard drive is being tortured by windows 10.
9:50 *how to make a homemade air raid siren*
Old ide dvd rw drives were way worse i have a pioneer one
you just earned a subscriber
It's could still work just do hardware manual repair
and thanks for sharing this video 👍
It does still work.
And you're welcome
Debating transferring Optiplex guts to mine.
And it was 10 years old when I got it
9:49 okay, i have a funny ass story to tell. so you heard that whirring noise, correct? well, there was a time when i wanted to see "what would happen if i put a ps4 disc in the family HP compaq 8100". my dad switched it over to windows 10 since windows 10 came out about a year after he bough the computer, and the thing is practically toruring the hard drive. its slow and laggy, and is just.. shit. anyway, i put the ps4 disc in the computer, and waited about 10 seconds, nothing came up. so i waited about 10 more seconds, and nothing still didnt come up. i was about to take the disc out when OUT OF NOWHERE, i started hearing a whirring noise similar to this dell 4700, but it was much louder. i then remmembered my friend telling me about how when he was playing on his Ps2 slim, he heard a little scratching sound and then the door popped open and the disc flew out nearly taking his head off, and it cut off some of his hair.
so i jumped under the desk and waited for it to stop, and it did. but that moment scared the shit out of me, because i thought the computer was either going to explode, or eject the disc at light speed LOL
did anyone else go to youtube and look up Windows XP Installation Music? hahaha
You get around to updating the bios? Latest is A10 from 2006
yep.
Yay uploadè
If your goal is to recover photos, pull the drive, and put it in a external enclosure, or a known good system and clone it before you do anything else. Once the drive is cloned, you can recover the photos from the cloned drive and you would save yourself about a few hours of time.
Cloning the drive would take longer
@@I430VX If the drive was unresponsive or failing possibly. But then you could just move to cloning the partition Wich should not take more than 10 minutes. This video was 20 minutes and I'm sure you edited it down. I'm not correcting you or claiming my way is right. I'm just offering information. Ultimately it's your call. Cheers. Have a good day.
Yeah, the drive is failing for sure. The grand total of bad sectors (thus far, it goes up half the time I scan it) reaches several megabytes. I made an attempt at cloning but it looked like it was going to take forever because it was tripping up on the (not yet marked) bad sectors... I could imagine cloning a drive of good health taking only a little while.
@@I430VX Spinrite is pricey but it does a good job of cleaning up drives, the down side is it can take upwards of 14 to 15 hours depending on the level of attention you choose. To date it has not failed to either clean up the drive enough to clone it, and/or mark the missing sectors and make the drive usable again.
you need a oem dell installation cd
How to connect on internet without wire
Wireless.
Nice computer from 2004/2005.
For the time it was a good computer
how the hell do you get the cover off? i think mine’s jammed or something
I have the Dimension 4700 and it wont even boot up anymore. The first time I tried, It showed "128 BIOS" (all i could remember from it) and then the second time I pressed the button, it just popped and shut off. I've never worked with Old computers before. My limit is 2015 and above.
Probably the PSU went bad
@@I430VX no because the psu works perfectly fine in other computers
Maybe there's bad capacitors? are any bulging or torn open?
@@I430VX Nope, I think its because the previous owner installed thousands of viruses not knowingly and gave them to my friend and my friend said he will give a whole bunch if computers to me for testing, destruction, and personal use
Only the Dimension 4500s works
How do I remove the thing blocking the floppy disk drive?
Mine won’t boot at all only us green light on the motherboard the psu works any tips
is the power button plugged in (correctly)?
I have one of these and the tower turns on is running but the screen is black/not displaying??? All the cords are attached and plugged in (I triple checked) and the screen is still black??? Please help 🙏
same
@@bradturner385 I took my computer in to the local computer repair guy and he fixed it pretty easy.. Something burned out in there, I guess but he just switched it out and fixed it for me. He charged me $100 tho
All office PCs look the same, even if they’re from different manufacturers
Dell keeps deleting service tags from their site.Can't find the info on my Insprion 4000 or 8500. It worked when i typed in the service tag to my Optiplex 755 and it worked. Surprisingly it was shipped from Canada. Guess the owner moved to the US and decided to sell it on ebay, where my brother bought it. It was his before mine, he downgraded to a Dimension 3000 that he destroyed. Had a Celeron.
Ughhhhh, windows xp in 2018, hard drive sounds like it couldn't be trusted with even my useless folder...
You should've replaced that harddrive before returning it back to the customer that is if you had permission...
windows xp (and 2000) is my main operating systems today, shush :P
but yeah idk what was up with the hard drive... customer didnt want the PC back, i still have it, the HDD still works, hasn't had any more issues but i still certainly don't trust it very much
Who would want to run vista
My dimension led orange and no image
Do you mean the power LED? Is it blinking orange, or solid orange?
@@I430VXmine is solid orange
I’m aware of how terrible these are especially by todays stand point, but i would love to install a Voodoo 2 in my B110 and try to game on it.
Hi
I, Litterally Have The Same 🖤 Pc In My Basement I Want To Become A Pc Gamer I’ve been playing on a PS4 for like 2 years now on 🖤 60fps I just wanna play pc ,
It’s Craazy How U Made 🦋 It Turn On Atleast 🧊
I need help with my dell code 0148
What dell model? Where are you seeing this?
I430VX. Thanks for reply. It is a dell 540 studio with Windows Vista. Core 2. It also shuts down and starts again by itself??? Desktop PC.
from some googling I get the impression that your hard drive has failed.
I430VX I went and got anew one installed it. But still shuts off and turns on. It won't allow me to install disks that came with computer to boot up. ?
Huh. that's weird.
interesting points ,if anyone else is searching for
electronic repair parts
try Saankramer Electronic Magazine System ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my mate got amazing success with it.