{"id":11848,"date":"2021-12-08T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=11848"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T11:45:03","slug":"solved-replaced-cmos-battery-dell-desktop-wont-boot","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/replaced-cmos-battery-dell-desktop-wont-boot\/63916.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Replaced CMOS Battery Dell Desktop Won&#8217;t Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After replacing the dying battery on the mother board, my Dell Dimension 8400 won&#8217;t boot. Battery right side up. OS=Win XP. After the POST, I get a blue screen with the message &#8220;STOP: 0x0000007B (&#8230;)&#8221; This code means Inaccessible Boot Device, according to MS Win XP Knowledge Base. About a month ago I replaced the dead internal hard drive (160 GB, SATA interface) with a replacement drive (320 GB SATA), and successfully reinstalled WinXP and other software incl. MS Office. Perhaps, during the minute when there was no battery in the motherboard, some information (in the registry? in the BIOS? I don&#8217;t know) reverted to a factory default state, and as a result, the system cannot find the boot sector of the hard drive. Do you have advice for fixing this problem? I hope I don&#8217;t have to reformat the drive and reinstall WinXP and everything else. Thank you for your help.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>edited by moderator: Post moved from Windows XP Forum<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":18},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11848","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/11848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}