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Packed and stored my computer during a hurricane. Set it up again after about seven months. Turned it on, signed in and updated the clock for daylight saving time and then heard a heavy clicking / whirring sound like the drive was caught in a loop. I rebooted and the screen is at the computer information area which says AMIBIOS System Configuration ... below it tells about the main processor, memory, drives, parallel ports and below that is has two lines of data -- 256 KB cache memory and 100 MHz CPU Clock. If I press any keys the whirring sound begins again. I can reboot and turn it off, but that's it.
Can you help me? 100 MHz computer with Windows 95, internal US robotics 36.6 modem.
Thanks.
Open up the case and see if any cables are rubbing on the heatsink fan. Can you use computer normally? Your heading says Primary HDD failure but your comments seem to be unrelated, do you get a Primary HDD Failure message? How did you store HDD?, could be dust.If it's not a cable rubbing or the HDD it could be the Powersupply, mine makes a loud humming in cold wheather for about 5 minutes then goes.
p.s. It must have been a long Hurricane.
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Howdy, Sounds like you're hard drive has gone to hard drive heaven. Hard drives are not supposed to make the types of sounds that yours is making. Lets just hope you didn't have any important data that is not backed up. You can try using a boot disk to get to the drive but it doesn't always work. There are hard drive recovery companies but it can be costly. IF ya have any more questions, just holler.
Laters,
Kevin The Tech Dude.
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My Computer is not starting it gives me error
"Primary HDC Failure Press F1 to resume".
And After pessing F1 Key the Computer Hang up.
Please Solve My Problem.
Thank You
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I have the same problem with my old p100.
I didnt use it in a few months, and when i finally booted it up, it didnt work
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okay, this is how to fix it!
get to c: in dos
(if you cant, too bad!)and type DEL *.*
his [Y]es to everything..
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I had to pull out my hard drive to replace the cable from the mainboard to the display. When I put the hard drive back in, it booted up and said: HDC FAILURE PRESS F1 TO RESUME.
My BIOS doesn't recognize the drive and the AUTO detect doesn't find it.
Does someone know what to do?
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I have the same problem. I have the Asus P5a M/B, AMD K6-2 500mHz cpu, S4 pro 16 mb agp. My HDD went bad while online and I have'nt been able to boot since (I installed my backup HDD and get primary master failure.). Sent my HDD back to Western Digital, they replaced the HDD, and I'm afraid to install the new drive. Asus is of no help. Could it be my battery? M/B looks in fine shape, CD Rom works, can boot to floppy, but no HDD. Auto detect finds HDD, but I get the error message followed by press f1 to continue. Help, please?
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I removed the drivers for my modem and them went to add hardware and installed the drivers again. Whe I shut down I received an error message. Primary and Secondary HD failed on reboot. I was able to boot from systems disk. Every heard of this before.
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my p100 occasionally boots up and states there is a HDC failure. othertimes it works fine. There is a loud whirring noise but that disappears after 5 minutes. The computer is painfully slow even running word it takes several seconds to display what i type. When i reset it through the shut down menu it insists on doing a scan disk surface scan and it finds new bad sectors every time it does it.
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