and whenever i connect the drives all i get is a loud bleep than 5 secs then another bleep and on and on

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Hi billy, Connect just the hard drive and start the computer. What happens? Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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its not the hdd it was the cd\dvd rom that was wrong

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with only the hdd connected nothing happend only the computer starts but does not go anywhere but there is no pleep which indicates that the cd\dvd roms are at fault and i have checked the ide cables and the slave \master configurations

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its set to boot from cd\dvd rom first will i take out the cmos battery and put it back in after a few minutes and see what happens then

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anyone have any other ideas if not im just going to take out the cmos battery and hope for the best

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Hi billy, I don't think the BIOS settings have anything to do with; "all i get is a loud bleep than 5 secs then another bleep". Can you not get into the BIOS settings? Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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cant get into the bios settings but removed the cmos battery anyway now it powers up to the black screen with the message that CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR- DEFAULTS LOADED WARNING CPU HAS BEEN CHANGED PLEASE RE-ENTER CPU SETTINGS IN THE CMOS SETUP AND REMEMBER TO SAVE BEFORE QUIT then at the bottom of the screen i get PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE OR DEL TO ENTER SETUP but when i press these options nothing happens (either the keyboard is not responding or something else)

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Hi billy, That a rather common message on a lot of boards after resetting the CMOS. Normally one could just hit F1 and it would run at a lower CPU speed than it was set at before. Do you have another keyboard you can try? Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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yes i will try this one the other computer is a 1.3 pentium 4 with 512memory and it was going fine for a year with xp so its not any setup problems...

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ok i can get into bios set the comp to boot to cd first then rebooted to cd rom then a few seconds into the bit it looks for files up came this error FILE SETUPDD.SYS COULD NOT BE LOADED THE ERROR CODE IS 4 SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE (btw i have loaded win xp from this cd many times without error) so i then set it to boot from floppy and downloaded 6 floppy xp pro sp2 boot disks from the microsoft site on another computer and again it started but then stopped with thie error FILE\BIOSINFO.INF COULD NOT BE LOADED THE ERROR CODE IS 4096 PRESS ANY KEY TO EXIT

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7 HOURS IM NOW AT THE STAGE OF LOOKING FOR A WINDOW TO THROW THE THING OUT ... Any one know what to do next

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Hi billy, Nothing wrong with the CD as far as those errors are concerned. Those errors are due damaged or incompatable hardware. See this link Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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yes thats what i was reading but none of the hardware has changed except the cd writer i will try with it out .. i cant remove memory one at a time because if i remember correctly its rd ram and all channels have to have something in and i cant remember if i still have the banking plates or not.. i had spare rambus rd-ram and i gave it away.. ok im off to try it with the cd-rom i installed taken out and will post back

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Hi Billy, Remove all the PCI cards except for your video card. Unplug any USB devices, or printers. Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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I was as p**** off with going out and in the back of a unit i had it in the middle of the floor with just the case and monitor and keyboard.. also i had already taken the pci cards out i swapped hdd,s cd\dvd roms only thing left is the graphics card im going to change all the ide cables first thanks for all the help so far

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yipppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thanks for all your help mesich you are a hero it was hardware it was a liteon cdrw (not the one i installed thats what threw me) its formating just now greatttttttttttttttttt

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The end (lol)

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Hi billy, That's great, glad too hear it's working. Better news, you don't have to find a window for the whole computer, only the bad cdrw. :-) Best Regards and Wishes, Mesich, Webmaster of mesich.com Currently stored on a temporary webhost.

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ok it formated fine but then restarted with the error ntldr is missing maybe i spoke to soon

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this is just before it was due to install windows

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ok last post for tonight maybe i will come home from work tomorrow with a fresh head and many more posts\answers anyway sometimes it goes through the format and most times it returns the previous errors mentioned in a few posts back.. But when it does manage to format just after when it is loading windows there are errors that files are missing disc is ok but im now convinced it is hardware problem anyway off to bed for me tonight thanks to all that have posted already and please look past this post tomorrow

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WOW what a post!! Check out this link, "NTLDR is missing" error message " It'll Get Ya When You Aint Lookin " Please Post back to let us know if we helped

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its not an upgrade thoiugh i have formated this drive many times using the same win xp pro disc (booting from it and installing windows) although it was originally windows me that was on it and i did remove the cmos battery as someone said earler in this post..

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