I bought this Dell years ago and the warranty expired. Now I'm getting errors from the hard drive that the OS was erased, got a serious virus. It only boots to DOS now, so I figure the BIOS and CMOS are working.
Called my Dad and he told me to hit F8, then boot with Safe Mode. Had to delete the last update of Java, because that was the last change that was made on system.
I think they put out the Update 73 and I got the first version on Monday before they found the incompatibility with Windows 7. My HP needed the update yesterday and it said to only install on Windows 8 and 8.1.