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jim97006, on Dec 17 2009, 07:18 PM, said:
I'm not sure, but based on the discussions I've seen, 0033 appears to be a generic error for video card problems for this Dell.
I would try booting without a monitor connected. If you decide to try this, first turn off the computer, then unplug the computer and wait for the LED inside to PC turn off (you should be able to see the LED through the back grill, if I remember correctly). You can reconnect the monitor a few seconds after the bootup begins, just wait long enough to get past where you would normally see the 0033 error.
The reason I say to unplug the PC first is that the monitor information is sometimes stored in the PC, and just turning off the power without unplugging the PC uses the information from the last monitor connected. That might explain why the problem doesn't happen all the time for you. If it seemed to work for a long time then stopped, it may have been that the PC was using the stored monitor information that allowed it to boot up. Then the power was interrupted, maybe a short power outage or just unplugging power for a short time, and the monitor information was lost in the PC. If that happened, then it would try to use the connected monitor again and fail.
Here's a discussion of the problem that I was having in one of the Dell discussion groups.
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19281990.aspx
In this discussion, there is a post from September 19: "We are working on a bios release that will have an updated HDMI table which should fix this issue. No ETA on release date.".
It looks like the fix they came up with may have corrected the problem for the original video card but not for the card you are using.
You might also find other ideas in the discussion that you could try, such as going to an earlier bios or trying to boot when a different monitor is connected.
Good luck.
I would try booting without a monitor connected. If you decide to try this, first turn off the computer, then unplug the computer and wait for the LED inside to PC turn off (you should be able to see the LED through the back grill, if I remember correctly). You can reconnect the monitor a few seconds after the bootup begins, just wait long enough to get past where you would normally see the 0033 error.
The reason I say to unplug the PC first is that the monitor information is sometimes stored in the PC, and just turning off the power without unplugging the PC uses the information from the last monitor connected. That might explain why the problem doesn't happen all the time for you. If it seemed to work for a long time then stopped, it may have been that the PC was using the stored monitor information that allowed it to boot up. Then the power was interrupted, maybe a short power outage or just unplugging power for a short time, and the monitor information was lost in the PC. If that happened, then it would try to use the connected monitor again and fail.
Here's a discussion of the problem that I was having in one of the Dell discussion groups.
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19281990.aspx
In this discussion, there is a post from September 19: "We are working on a bios release that will have an updated HDMI table which should fix this issue. No ETA on release date.".
It looks like the fix they came up with may have corrected the problem for the original video card but not for the card you are using.
You might also find other ideas in the discussion that you could try, such as going to an earlier bios or trying to boot when a different monitor is connected.
Good luck.
Great advice, and thanks for the link, but It's not HDMI related (its DVI) so I don't know how much an HDMI table would do.
Well my major problem is freezeups right now. Haven't pin pointed the cause.
It doesn't seem like any fixes i've tried are helping at all.
I tried your method, and no luck for me.
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