Hi, folks, I hope that one of you might have some ideas for me...
I'm installing another jard drive in a customer's computer. The machine is
a 486, and the only hard disk is roughly 500+ MB. I put in the new disk,
and hooked everything up, and the machine won't show any video display. I
suspect that it's also not booting, but I don't know that for sure.
After the first attempt to start the machine, I have not had the second hard
drive hooked up to the machine.
In this process, I detached the floppy drive cable. I'm fairly sure I've
put it back the correct way, and I have tried it in all possible
combinations of positions.
I did not notice (when I initially opened the box) any ribbon cables from
the CD ROM to the sound card. In the process of trying to get it to show a
display, I have hooked up one.
What I get when I start it up is either 2 beeps in quick succession, and
then evenly spaced beeps about .75 to 1.0 secs apart, or just the evenly
spaced beeps - depending on the way I have the floppy drive ribbon cables
hooked up. No video display. In the process of swapping things around, I
noticed that the PCI video card had wiggled part way out of its slot. When
it was that way, and when I turned the power on, I didn't get the beeps, but
I didn't get any video, either. When I pushed the card back in, I started
getting the beeps again at attempted startup, and still no video.
If anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate them. I'm poor right now, and I'd
really like to get paid for this job... :-)
Marc
"The kaboom! Where's the kaboom?! There was
supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
- Marvin Martian
