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10th Sep 2008, 08:38
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 Computer isn't working- it's beeping! I took apart my nan's old 98 machine, to put the hard drive into my current 98, and now whenever I turn it on, it beeps at me. The beep is long- 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off. I'm not sure what the problem is, can someone help me? Thanks. |
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10th Sep 2008, 09:29
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! beeps are different for all motherboards, what motherboard do you have? Do you have a manual for your motherboard? it will say in there if you do. Otherwise we could help you by looking on the internet, however can only be 100% certain what it means if we know what motherboard you have.
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13th Sep 2008, 01:43
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! I found the manual for the motherboard. It says it's for 7BXAS/7BXAN/7ZXAS/7ZXAN. I've checked the image in the book against my motherboard and it matches. What should I look for in the book? Under which heading would I find instructions about it beeping? |
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13th Sep 2008, 03:01
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! well for my motherboard, the beep codes are at the very back under troubleshooting |
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13th Sep 2008, 05:50
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! What happenned when the drive was in your Nan's machine ? .... i.e. before you tried running it in yours.
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14th Sep 2008, 06:32
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! The hard drive worked fine in my nan's machine. I decided to transfer it to my machine so I could have a hard drive to experiment with Linux(might as well experiment on an old machine and make mistakes on it now, then make the same mistakes later on a better machine :) I'll have a read through the motherboard's manual. |
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14th Sep 2008, 10:39
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! If you are hooking it up to your PC on the same IDE cable, alongside your existing drive, did you change the jumper to Slave ? ... assuming it's an IDE drive. |
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15th Sep 2008, 13:00
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! The computer is now working, the beeping was caused by the RAM. I just had the wrong kind inserted. However the machine only recognises one hard drive. How do you change the jumper to slave? |
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15th Sep 2008, 13:08
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| Computer isn't working- it's beeping! The settings vary from drive to drive, but there should be a key on the drive itself .... if not give us the make & model of the drive and we can check it out for you. The jumper is a small plastic/metal bridge which is used across the pins, as per the key above. Here's an example of what you are looking for :  |
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