Deskpro EN Hard Drive Problem I am stumped.
I have a Compaq Desktop model Deskpro EN that I hardly ever use. It sits
running. I only have one visual basic billing program that I periodically use. This morning I went to boot it and got an error message that the file windows 2000 root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe was corrupted and needed to be reinstalled. I booted off of the Win2K CD and tried to repair the disk with no luck. I believe and I/O error message accompanied this. So i decided to take the pc apart to clean out all dust, make sure all cables are seated, no dust in the contacts, etc and then went to reboot. Well now, I get no image on the monitor and the CD sounds like it is spinning up and getting warm but all I get is 2 beeps. I have retraced my steps, thinking that I reassembled the cables incorrectly but I do not think so. I am not sure. There is a separate cable going to the HD, the CDR and the floppy drive. is this correct. Then each gets power and the CDR gets some smaller connectors. i am stumped. I am more of a Mac person so I do not really understand how PCs go together as well. I do know that the cable that goes from the board to the floppy is of a unique size and cannot have been switched by accident. That leaves the CDR and Hard Drive. If anyone can figure out what I may have screwed up, please let me know. BTW, I had a couple of spare HD lying around and tried both of them with the same 2 beeps. I just need to get it running so I can contact Western Digital and see where I go from here. Please help if you can. |
Deskpro EN Hard Drive Problem I am stumped.
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Deskpro EN Hard Drive Problem I am stumped.
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Deskpro EN Hard Drive Problem I am stumped.
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Deskpro EN Hard Drive Problem I am stumped.
William H. Bowen wrote:
wrote: I have a Compaq Desktop model Deskpro EN that I hardly ever use. It sits running. I only have one visual basic billing program that I periodically use. This morning I went to boot it and got an error message that the file windows 2000 root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe was corrupted and needed to be reinstalled. I booted off of the Win2K CD and tried to repair the disk with no luck. I believe and I/O error message accompanied this. So i decided to take the pc apart to clean out all dust, make sure all cables are seated, no dust in the contacts, etc and then went to reboot. Well now, I get no image on the monitor and the CD sounds like it is spinning up and getting warm but all I get is 2 beeps. I have retraced my steps, thinking that I reassembled the cables incorrectly but I do not think so. I am not sure. There is a separate cable going to the HD, the CDR and the floppy drive. is this correct. Then each gets power and the CDR gets some smaller connectors. i am stumped. I am more of a Mac person so I do not really understand how PCs go together as well. I do know that the cable that goes from the board to the floppy is of a unique size and cannot have been switched by accident. That leaves the CDR and Hard Drive. If anyone can figure out what I may have screwed up, please let me know. BTW, I had a couple of spare HD lying around and tried both of them with the same 2 beeps. I just need to get it running so I can contact Western Digital and see where I go from here. Please help if you can. Michael, Unlatch the riser unit and re-seat it. I've had this same issue with the EN I used to have. Regards, Bill Bowen Sacramento, CA The riser card itself can fail. Used to handle a contract with nearly 8000 Compaq DeskPro EN's. We had perhaps 1 riser card failure every three months. Compaq replaced them under warranty, though that's no longer an option. Regards, Phil Gilmer |
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