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NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1

Original Message
Name: alexandra88
Date: June 20, 2005 at 07:19:51 Pacific
Subject: NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1
OS: Windows NT
CPU/Ram: P3 800, 128MB
Comment:
Help!!

NT system wont boot today. After turning it on there are 2 fast beeps and a message saying "strike f1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utilities"

I notice in setup that under Primary Disk 0 is "Unknown"


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Response Number 1
Name: hiho
Date: June 20, 2005 at 08:10:55 Pacific
Subject: NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1
Reply: (edit)
It appears you have lost the BIOS settings, try changing the CMOS Battery!

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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer
Date: June 20, 2005 at 08:57:42 Pacific
Subject: NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1
Reply: (edit)
It would appear to me the bios is fine but you lost the hard drive.

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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: June 21, 2005 at 00:25:45 Pacific
Subject: NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1
Reply: (edit)
Me too

M2


If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.


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Response Number 4
Name: bob819
Date: June 23, 2005 at 03:52:59 Pacific
Subject: NT wont boot, 2 beeps, strike F1
Reply: (edit)
The commercial organisation I work at has three thousand Dell GX150's running NT4 SP6a and they eat hard drives for breakfast! Lovely bit of design, the fan for the power supply is angled and points straight at, guess what?, Yup, the hard drive! Mind you they did put a little plastic box round it making it into a lovely little oven!
We replace the HDD and Ghost an image & we're OK for six months!
So definitely a hard drive problem. Some of the Dells have a built in disk diagnostic try pressing CTRL-ALT-D when the Dell logo appears and it will tell you what the problem is.
Regards,
Bob Mitchell.

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