Beeping from motherboard

[Carlos82]

I replaced my e machines hard drive. Its not a new one its an extra one that I had in storage. As soon as I plug the power the led light starts flickering and there is a sound (like if you press a key in the keyboard and leave it pressed). No video, and pressing the power button does nothing. Any suggestions??

 

[Glenn9999]

what are the specs on the computer and on the hard drive itself?

 

[Carlos82]

Operating System: Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

CPU: Intel® Celeron® Processor 2GHz (w/128KB L2 cache & 400MHz FSB)
Chipset: Intel® 845GL chipset
Memory: 256MB DDR (PC2100)
Hard Drive: 40GB HDD
Optical Drive: 40 × 12x40 Max. CD-RW Drive; 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Video: Intel® Extreme Graphics 3D (845GL shared)
Sound: AC '97 Audio
Network: 10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
Modem: 56K ITU v.92-ready Fax/Modem
Peripherals: Keyboard, Wheel Mouse, Stereo Speakers
Ports/Other: 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 on front), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Mic-In & Head Phone jack on front, Audio-In & Out, 3 PCI slots (2 available)
Dimensions: 7.25"W x 14.125"H x 16"D


Hard Drve:
Cylinders 1 16383
Heads 16
Sectors/Track 63
Landing Zone 16383
WPC 16383
Jumper Setting Information Ten Pin Drive
20 Gigs

 

[electronicsfreak]

Use this page to determine the meaning of the bios beep. You will need to know what bios you are using.

http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

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[franklin97355]

Pull out the hard drive and see if the beeping goes away.

The answer is "42"

 

[G0AOZ]

Try and determine if the drive is spinning. If you have just the 4-pin Molex power connector attached to this drive, does the computer now boot up as before, and can you hear the platters revolving?

How were you connecting the drive to the motherboard? As a slave to the main drive, or on the same interface as the optical drive? Try re-checking jumpering, and substitute the IDE cable for a another known good one.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[CiscoRC]

Jumpers are more likely to have a change in boot sequence and constance beeps if it's set up differently. Every drives are different and are nearly the fact that you must use the first hard drive as Master, then slave for the second.

Checks jumper settings on your current hard drive should have a lable on the front telling you which jumpers to use....etc....

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