Help! Pc wont boot up!

[AndrewxChau]

Well my friend is having a problem with his pc, he recently took his hd from another computer (a different brand name), and inserted it into his other, when he screws everything in, and plugs everything in, then plugs in the VGA, turns it on their is a beeping sound without any display except for plz check your monitor settings or osmething of the sort.

How can he fix this ?

 

[Trotter]

Count the beeps. They are a BIOS code telling you what the problem is.

You also need to find out what BIOS his mobo has so it can be looked up.

 

[AndrewxChau]

Nice, very quick reply, thanks. I will find out and will make a reply.

How do i find out the bios?

 

[AndrewxChau]

ok he found out that his ram wasnt properlly inserted, now he has the error of disk cannot boot, he tryed screwing around the jumpers still no go, now what do you suggest he does?

 

[HAVOC]

This is like the 5th post of the exact same issue by 5 different NEW MEMBERS? hmmmmmm..... very interesting...

 

[BASSMASTER]

Windows XP I assume? It doesn't like to be moved from one machine to another.

Honestly I don't know the solution. You can try booting to the recovery console an doing a FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. If that doesn't work, try a repair.

 

[hikaricloud]

yeah, if you are running XP then it has failsafes in place so you dont switch around the harddrives like they did back in the days of 98. even then it only worked for so long. assuming you are using it as a master drive.

really, your only bet here is to format the harddrive and put windows back on it. if you have anything worthwhile to save, plug it into another computer as a slave and copy the files you want out of it.

 

[HAVOC]

1.) What type of HDD? SATA or IDE
2.) Did this HDD have an OS installed on it?

 

[Nitestick]

ahhh those were the good old days weren't they hikaricloud. the problem is most likely that its xp and is set as master and doesn't like it, a stuffed hdd that is giving dodgy messages, ide cable in wrong or incorrectly jumpered

 

[AndrewxChau]

Hmm, yeah is is IDE windows xp so i should reformatt the hd ?