Hard drive starts, but black screen. Pls help!

fnerks · 01-18-2005, 05:51 PM

My Thinkpad (Win 98) won't boot. I think I disabled the wrong hard drive in Device Manager in trying to resolve an IRQ conflict. At first on start-up I could start with the recovery disc but only to the floopy A drive, and when I tried to load Win, I got a message there was no hard drive. IN the process of trying this and that I now can't even get it to recognise the recovery disc.
On start, the hard drive spins normally for a couple of seconds and then slowws and I get one long beep and one short beep, then nothing.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

greyknight17 · 01-19-2005, 09:03 AM

Welcome to TSF.

The beep code you gave me sounds like a motherboard issue. Did you change anything in the bios? See if you can change the IRQ setting in the bios.

fnerks · 01-19-2005, 04:20 PM

Thanks for the response. No I didn't get into the bios. And what I thought was the hard drive spinning was in fact the fan. I don't believe the drive is operating. I'm sort of coming to the conclusion it's shot.
In other searches, I've come to read about the "click of death". I think I have had those symptoms in recent weeks, so maybe the drive has just simply given up the ghost!

01-18-2005, 05:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
fnerks Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: Win 98	Hard drive starts, but black screen. Pls help! My Thinkpad (Win 98) won't boot. I think I disabled the wrong hard drive in Device Manager in trying to resolve an IRQ conflict. At first on start-up I could start with the recovery disc but only to the floopy A drive, and when I tried to load Win, I got a message there was no hard drive. IN the process of trying this and that I now can't even get it to recognise the recovery disc. On start, the hard drive spins normally for a couple of seconds and then slowws and I get one long beep and one short beep, then nothing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

01-19-2005, 09:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
greyknight17 Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New York Posts: 14,331 OS: Windows 98 & Windows XP Home/Pro My System	Welcome to TSF. The beep code you gave me sounds like a motherboard issue. Did you change anything in the bios? See if you can change the IRQ setting in the bios. __________________ Please do NOT PM me. Post whatever questions you may have in the forum and we will take a look at it when we get to it. If you have waited for more than 3 days, you may then and ONLY then PM me for assistance. I will take a look at it. Adaware :: CWShredder :: HijackThis :: Panda ActiveScan :: Spybot S&D Anti-Spyware Tutorial :: Spyware Prevention Tools

01-19-2005, 04:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
fnerks Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 OS: Win 98	Thanks for the response. No I didn't get into the bios. And what I thought was the hard drive spinning was in fact the fan. I don't believe the drive is operating. I'm sort of coming to the conclusion it's shot. In other searches, I've come to read about the "click of death". I think I have had those symptoms in recent weeks, so maybe the drive has just simply given up the ghost!