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chrisj13 · 05-07-2008, 04:23 AM

Hi,

By re-resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery, I am no longer getting the beeping noise. I don't know what I did the first time, but the PC didn't like it.

Right now I have the HD jumper set to cable select, and I only have HDD-0 set as an option in the BIOS. (No CD-Rom, Floppy, etc). At this point, it still takes 10 minutes to get past the Detecting IDE Drives message, but the final error message tells me to insert a system disk.

I am just confused as to why my 30 GB old drive still works with a broken pin, but the one that seems to be intact won't boot.

05-07-2008, 04:23 AM	#12 (permalink)
chrisj13 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 22 OS: XP SP2	Re: Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed (Different from [CLOSED] th Hi, By re-resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery, I am no longer getting the beeping noise. I don't know what I did the first time, but the PC didn't like it. Right now I have the HD jumper set to cable select, and I only have HDD-0 set as an option in the BIOS. (No CD-Rom, Floppy, etc). At this point, it still takes 10 minutes to get past the Detecting IDE Drives message, but the final error message tells me to insert a system disk. I am just confused as to why my 30 GB old drive still works with a broken pin, but the one that seems to be intact won't boot.