[thelloyd1]

Screen says this upon startup.


(Alert! OS Install Mode enabled. Amount of Available memory limited to 256MB. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run setup utility)



Every tool I run on this machine says there is no HDD installed.
F1 does nothing and F2 just goes into the BIOS and shows no sign of a Hard Drive installed anywhere. Please help if anyone has had this problem.

thelloyd1

System Info
Dell Demension B110
Service Tag-30YWJ91
BIOS V.A01
Celeron 2.53 Ghz.
Win XP Home

 

[AceGoober]

Is this a new machine or did this symptom just start happening?

 

[thelloyd1]

Just popped up!
lady said she found it one day with the side cover cracked loose
and then she noticed this problem
and she has kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I inspected it thoroughly and it does not show any signs of tampering.
Oh! by the way it just sits there and the hard drive keeps beeping.
I tried another hard drive and the beeping goes away but still the same.