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My desktop Computer

Aug 23, 2017 3:19PM PDT

I purchased a refurbished Dell OptiPlex 320 Computer 2 years and 4 months ago. It worked fine until recently. I had it turned off and when I turned it on the bios showed on the screen and stopped, and would not continue to start my windows 7 home premium operating system. If there's anyone that could give me information on what could be causing this, I would appreciate it.

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First thoughts.
Aug 23, 2017 3:27PM PDT

As I don't know more than what you told, this is typical for a failed HDD, blown OS or other failures.

At the shop we'd see if the screen or BIOS lists the HDD. In either case we'd open it (after removing power) to see if the HDD came unplugged and then power up and see if the HDD seems to be spinning.

Depending on that we'd slip in a shop drive and do a quick OS install to see if that works.

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If the HDD is listed in the BIOS
Aug 23, 2017 5:01PM PDT

It may still be bad. Boot to a bootable USB flashdrive or bootable DVD, set the BIOS to look there for boot device. If that boots OK, then back to HD or OS.

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Desktop
Aug 23, 2017 8:18PM PDT

If this machine has an optical drive in it and you have a boot able disc try to boot from that.

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Re: Dell OptiPlex 320 BIOS
Aug 27, 2017 11:44PM PDT

Dear @Josh1596,
You have to download and update the latest version of your Dell OptiPlex 320 BIOS. Find out what is your current version and then install a new version from Dell's official website.
I think you current BIOS version ID: 1.1.11
and you need to update to BIOS Revision: 1.1.12
Hope that your problem will solve.