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Hey i own an inspiron 1501 and it boots to phoeonix bios, but whenever it detects windows on my hard drive everything is normal it goes to the windows starting logo then my entire inspiron restarts. the screen is black and then it powers back up but it still on , I think it may be a motherboard error but im not 100% sure is there any way to fix this pls help.
OH LOL, it was a bad piece of ram a 4200S that caused the issue it works nicely now it boos to windows with no problems
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/… download A16 bios. Use bios to boot off the A16. It’s under system boot settings. Watch it update and keep the computer plugged into the power outlet. It should take 15 to 20 minutes judging from the age of the device. Boot it up when it gets done. Power off. Power it up by also pressing delete as it boots. You’ll see the start up options. Navigate using keyboard, open bios, it’ll look different. Get a copy of windows 10 home edition to go with the new bios. Download it from Microsoft.
