optiplex 790 trying to update bios

[Anjelllo]

Just bought an optiplex 790 and put in a 1050ti as well as a new psu. For some reason it wouldn’t let me boot from the hard drive, so I ran the diagnostics built into the bios, and the hard drive is perfectly fine. I looked it up and on the dell forums there were a lot of people with the same problem, but they just updated their bios to fix it. So, I followed the directions here:http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln284433/what-is-bios-and-how-to-update-the-bios-on-your-dell-system?lang=en but I got to the part where you have to type in the file name, and all the computer does it make a beeping sound when I hit a key. Help?

[emosun]

Use the "within windows" method

[Anjelllo]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

Use the "within windows" method

I can’t boot into my hard drive, which is the reason i’m trying to update my bios....

[emosun]

Just now, Anjelllo said:

I can’t boot into my hard drive, which is the reason i’m trying to update my bios....

Take the card out , then boot into windows

[Anjelllo]

Just now, emosun said:

Take the card out , then boot into windows

 Don’t have an adapter for the motherboard  , it only has vga

[emosun]

what exact error do you get when the machine tries to load windows

[Anjelllo]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

what exact error do you get when the machine tries to load windows

Lemme do it again so I can take a picture of the error

[emosun]

18 minutes ago, Anjelllo said:

Just bought an optiplex 790

is it fair to say that you've never booted this machine as well?

[Anjelllo]

This is what I get: 

[Anjelllo]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

is it fair to say that you've never booted this machine as well?

Yeah, just bought it, but from a reputable ebay seller

[emosun]

Just now, Anjelllo said:

Yeah, just bought it, but from a reputable ebay seller

I just returned a workstation to a reputable ebay seller. It's not impossible for it to not be DOA.

But your problem looks fixable simply by just reinstalling windows. have you tried that?

[Anjelllo]

Just now, emosun said:

I just returned a workstation to a reputable ebay seller. It's not impossible for it to not be DOA.

But your problem looks fixable simply by just reinstalling windows. have you tried that?

I’ll try that right now, I’m probably over-thinking this.

[emosun]

Might not hurt to check the boot order and make sure the hard drive is actually the first boot device. Or at least that it's listed in the boot order. 

[Anjelllo]

8 minutes ago, emosun said:

Might not hurt to check the boot order and make sure the hard drive is actually the first boot device. Or at least that it's listed in the boot order. 

The hard drive is listed in the one time boot section, but I get errors booting into it, I’m creating a windows 10 media tool right now.

[Anjelllo]

35 minutes ago, emosun said:

I just returned a workstation to a reputable ebay seller. It's not impossible for it to not be DOA.

But your problem looks fixable simply by just reinstalling windows. have you tried that?

 What a great day....  

[emosun]

Hell try just a regular windows 7 disk to see if the drive shows up in the setup menu

[Anjelllo]

6 minutes ago, emosun said:

Hell try just a regular windows 7 disk to see if the drive shows up in the setup menu

You mean a dvd? I don’t have any dvds

[emosun]

Just now, Anjelllo said:

You mean a dvd? I don’t have any dvds

Are you able to enter the systems bios at all. Because again I would check if the drive is listed in the boot order.

Short of that I'd pull the drive out and put it into another machine and make sure it works and can be formatted and written to.

[Anjelllo]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

Are you able to enter the systems bios at all. Because again I would check if the drive is listed in the boot order.

Short of that I'd pull the drive out and put it into another machine and make sure it works and can be formatted and written to.

Ok, I looked up the error code I was getting from the media creation tool, and I found on some german site that I needed to run it as administrator. I can access the system’s bios, but not at the same time as I’m creating the media tool as I have only one monitor, keyboard, etc