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Oh dear god help me. Swapped a harddrive and now the computer just makes a buzz/beeping sound!
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28. September 2007 @ 13:17 |
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Okay. I swapped an IDE harddrive for my friend...his was broke, so i swapped the harddrive for a new one for him. I did everything fine, everythings connected.
Now, i start the computer up and instead of it booting up it does this really wierd buzzing/beeping sound. Lasts for about a second and a half then does the same noise again.
Oh and a red light comes on the front of the pc aswell. Maybe this means i fitted something wrong or im just unlucky as hell?
ANy help is appreciated.
P.S im dead if ive screwed it up.
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28. September 2007 @ 13:31 |
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Did you knock any cables? Unplug the drive, does the same happen?
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28. September 2007 @ 13:54 |
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The annoying thing is i know for sure i didnt knock any cables. and what do you mean....completely unplug the harddrive and start it up then?
Oh by the way, after about 5 minutes the noise stops, but my monitor still says "Check signal cable" meaning its not picking anything up.
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28. September 2007 @ 13:56 |
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Yeah that's what I mean.
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28. September 2007 @ 13:57 |
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give me a sec. hey sam...do you have msn? Just so we can have this conversation now and in real time? Pm it me if u could.
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28. September 2007 @ 14:01 |
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make sure the jumpers are set right :-)
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28. September 2007 @ 14:11 |
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The what pardon?
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28. September 2007 @ 14:13 |
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internal IDE drives have jumpers on the back. you typically have options for cable select, master, and slave. set them right (i'm assuming the master position, for this case).
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28. September 2007 @ 14:15 |
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Okay ill try it.
Auslander, pm me your msn address? You and sam can help me out lol.
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28. September 2007 @ 14:17 |
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i don't do the messenger thing. sorry.
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28. September 2007 @ 14:30 |
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Thanks anyway...must be a faulty harddrive
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28. September 2007 @ 14:32 |
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he's sent me a 3gp file of the hard drive. It sounds unhealthy, I think it's faulty and needs replacement. My only concern is if it fried the motherboard via the IDE. Hopefully not, but if not, why the 'no signal'?
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28. September 2007 @ 14:37 |
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that doesn't mean the board is fried at all; something that works simply needs to be connected to that channel to test it.
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28. September 2007 @ 15:19 |
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Oh I'm not saying it's definite, it's just something that could have happened.
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28. September 2007 @ 15:31 |
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aye, but we can hope it hasn't :-)
more testing need be done, arg!
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29. September 2007 @ 07:50 |
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So yeh...i didnt go today, because i didnt have time and im pretty certain that me and my dad did the same thing to an oldddd computer of his about a year ago when we tried to change some dodgy old ages RAM around....the thing started making a similar noise.
Guys im really worried...
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29. September 2007 @ 07:57 |
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Well, all you can do is try a new hard drive and see what happens.
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29. September 2007 @ 12:55 |
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billybob
A weird beeping sound usually means that you have memory problem and if you are hearing a buzzing sound then something is not fully connected. Re-seat your memory and if that doesn't work then try a stick in a previously unused slot just to be sure that you didn't crack the previous memory slot.
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29. September 2007 @ 14:03 |
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I've listened to the sound, it's neither. I recognise it, but it definitely means there's something funny going on inside the drive. It's too fast to be beeps, and too tonal to be a buzzing from bad electrical connections.
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29. September 2007 @ 14:10 |
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I've listened to the sound, it's neither. I recognise it, but it definitely means there's something funny going on inside the drive. It's too fast to be beeps, and too tonal to be a buzzing from bad electrical connections.
Hard drives always die in silence so listen again. A beeping sound is almost always related to memory. To hear it just remove your memory and try and boot up.
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29. September 2007 @ 14:13 |
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Perhaps but only if there's something wrong with the chipset, that's no BIOS code I've ever heard.
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29. September 2007 @ 14:36 |
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Fabulous. Joes computer has a completely unique disease.
:P
Thanks for your help guys ill try start it up without the memory tomorrow.
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29. September 2007 @ 14:45 |
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Perhaps but only if there's something wrong with the chipset, that's no BIOS code I've ever heard.
You don't mean from the one or two systems that you've actually worked on do you?
I realize that I've only had my hands in dozens of computers in the last 6 months or so, but beeps are a pretty common memory test. So anytime one hears beeping when powering on, memory should be a logical baseline.
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29. September 2007 @ 16:33 |
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Admittedly. I'll email you the file billybob sent me to your yahoo Hubert, and take a listen for yourself.
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29. September 2007 @ 20:44 |
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ok.. ill try to help, make chure the colored cable on the ide cable is closest to the power cable. in other words, power always goes to pin one, depending on the ide cable on either side of the cable there will be one that is a different collor make shur that one is on the same side and the power connector that goes to the hdd.
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Hard drives always die in silence so listen again
I beg to differ, i filmed a video on my cell of a hdd squealing like a pig right before it died.
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