Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. vanlee

    Disk Boot Failure

    Where can I find fdisk?
  2. vanlee

    Disk Boot Failure

    Yesterday I came home from work and I started my computer. It was making a series of beeps. After looking in my PC Repair book I determined it was a hard drive problem. I disconnected my secondaryy drive and tried again. Now, I got no beeps, but the main drive said disk boot failure. I inserted...
  3. vanlee

    Power Supply shuts down after I plug it in

    Thanks for all the great suggestions! I finally found the problem. When I mounted the heat sink/fan assembly to the hard drive and installed it in the drive bay, the heat si was just touching the small board housing the on/off switch. That must have been causing the problem because when I...
  4. vanlee

    Power Supply shuts down after I plug it in

    i think you are right in that something is causing the power supply fail safe to shut it down. but, i installed a hard drive fan, not a CPU fan and I've since disconnected it. I've disconnected everything, but then the power supply won't even start for a second. I read that you have to have at...
  5. vanlee

    Power Supply shuts down after I plug it in

    My computer was working fine. I sut it down to install a hard drive heat sink/fan. After reconnecting the hrad drive power connectors the computer will only turn on for a second before it shuts down. This is a Compaq computer I got from a friend. It has been running great until now. I've...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top