CPU won't boot past BIOS Revision A03 Screen

[Myron Winston]

Hello Everybody, I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or what. My Dell Demension E310 will not boot past the page that says Dell DV051 Series, BIOS Revision A03. It gets to this page, then it just goes to a black screen. It was working fine until it froze up and had to be restarted. When it came back on, it just went to a black screen. I think I may have downloaded a virus on it but I rebooted from an anti-virus rescue system disk which deleted about 7 viruses. The CPU still would not boot past that same screen. Does anybody have any suggestions on what this could be? I really appreciate any help... Thanks!

[Dalo Harkin]

Do you have a set of recovery disks?

or a partition on the PC that is visible when booted saying along the lines of 'press F10 to launch recovery console'

[Myron Winston]

Do you have a set of recovery disks?

or a partition on the PC that is visible when booted saying along the lines of 'press F10 to launch recovery console'

 

No sir, I see F2 for Setup and F12 for boot menu

 

Unfortunately, I do not have any recovery disks. I restored my system to default in the setup menu by pressing F2 and choosing the maintenance option and I hit load defaults, Now I get an error that says Floppy Diskette Seek Failure, hit F1 to continue, F2 to run setup utility.

 

If I hit F1, it just goes to that same black screen and does nothing else.

[Dalo Harkin]

You will need to enter the BIOS and look for the BOOT options - set the first device as the HDD

 

You are getting the floppy seek error as most laptops/PCs do not come with floppy drives now...hence one not being found