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auntieannie2 · 11-28-2008, 07:09 PM

HI, I played around with my Tecra 8100 laptop, it had Windows 2000pro on it, worked great.I got an error message at one point and somehow I ended up using a floppy I thought was a boot disk but it actually wiped out something (bios?)because now I get no boot. The first three green lights come on and then for a moment the green HD light comes on, then it goes off again. The screen stays black. When I turn the laptop off I get one longer beep and 29 short ones. The hard disk was tested in another Tecra 8100 and it works great. What did I do and how can I fix it and get it to boot again? I now have windows xp pro on the HD and I don't have any of the win 2000disks. I do have a Tecra 8100 win 98SE system and companion disk from another Tecra I had. I also have an XPpro disk. Can you help? Thank you, Anne

11-28-2008, 07:09 PM	#1 (permalink)
auntieannie2 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: windows XP sp2	Tecra 8100 not booting HI, I played around with my Tecra 8100 laptop, it had Windows 2000pro on it, worked great.I got an error message at one point and somehow I ended up using a floppy I thought was a boot disk but it actually wiped out something (bios?)because now I get no boot. The first three green lights come on and then for a moment the green HD light comes on, then it goes off again. The screen stays black. When I turn the laptop off I get one longer beep and 29 short ones. The hard disk was tested in another Tecra 8100 and it works great. What did I do and how can I fix it and get it to boot again? I now have windows xp pro on the HD and I don't have any of the win 2000disks. I do have a Tecra 8100 win 98SE system and companion disk from another Tecra I had. I also have an XPpro disk. Can you help? Thank you, Anne