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delta_crest

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Hi guys im new to this forum and it seems a relly cool place :)

as my subject it self tells my question is some thing related to a very old machine..

I of course have a P4 now,
but one of the machine at my friends place is a P I MMX yes you have read it right its some 9 years old machine and it was working fine till yesterday, but since i had to back up some old data on that HDD i connected the OLD HDD to my friendz new machine (a P4 1.9 Ghz).I booted his new machine with OLD HDD containing Win 98 and made the New HDD as Slave. Although i was able to do back up but now the problem is that when i reconnected the Old HDD to the Old machine the machine booted but was very slow,all of a sudden the machine was off, actually i came to know that the HDD was failing to boot on this old machine.I had to push the reset button some 5-7 time every time to start the machine,but ultimetly now i started geeting a BEEp sound (long continious beep) and the monitor LED which would turn green turns orange as soon as i start geetin BEEp sound.

i checked RAM Video Card, removed all PCI equipment, but no change.

Just for the information this OLD machine does not support any HDD above 8 gb,we had got a 20 GB connected in this machine but the partition was made only for 8 Gb

Kindly help me soon
 
did you set the drive jumper back as master when you put in back in the old computer and it might help to reset the bios
 
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Hi there

but when i had connected the Old HDD to the New machine, I had not changed any jumper settings.so it should have work in the old machine again.also as per my experience if i remove th HDD from the MoBo then i shall atleast get the BIOS option,right but in this case there is no BIOS noyhin On the screen..
 
Hi,

Reseting the bios is prob a good idea like stranglehold said, if u can get it on long enough to do that set it to Fail-Safe or equivalent (if your lucky there will be a jumper on the board that may do it for you depending on the quality of the board at the time)!

It might also be worth checking that all the connecters on the IDE cable/drive have not been bent or snapped in any way during the backup and are the right way round, check the power connecter is properly pushed in too (seems obvious but can be overlooked in the heat of the moment)!

Try reconecting it to the computer you used to back it up and see if that can still read it, to confirm hd failure, if it can maybe something else is at work here!

I recently had a failure on my secondary HD and it would either freeze when going through the hd checks at bootup or would sudenly just reboot without warning when it was accesed, sounds similar to your problem!

If you could find the manual for the motherboard or download it somewhere (somewhere may still have it, u knever know) you may be able to find out what the bleep code means!

But its just a case of trail and error!

Its a little bit of a tricky situation to answer over the net but i hope i helped!
 
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