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Hello Nissan men and women.

I've got an old PC I'm trying to ressurect so I can get my albums and porn off her.

When I turn on said PC, I get a short pause, then I get a beep, 3 seconds long or so. Then a 3/4 second silence, then another 3 second beep and so on.

Does this beep mean a fault code like a f*kn car ecu?

IIRC (I dont currently have a monitor hooked up) with a screen hooked up I get no visuals, cant remember if the monitor goes off stand by or not when this happens, i THINK it did, Ill be trying this soon.

PC is an AMD pentium 1.6 equiv or similer. pretty much dead standard no cool graphics cards or anything.

PS. I un hooked the power switch (on/off switch) and tried another because I couldnt even get it to turn on. changing the switch fixes this. I was gonna change the power supply but thought I'd try that first.

Thank you for your time.

-Dale

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Hello Nissan men and women.

I've got an old PC I'm trying to ressurect so I can get my albums and porn off her.

When I turn on said PC, I get a short pause, then I get a beep, 3 seconds long or so. Then a 3/4 second silence, then another 3 second beep and so on.

Does this beep mean a fault code like a f*kn car ecu?

IIRC (I dont currently have a monitor hooked up) with a screen hooked up I get no visuals, cant remember if the monitor goes off stand by or not when this happens, i THINK it did, Ill be trying this soon.

PC is an AMD pentium 1.6 equiv or similer. pretty much dead standard no cool graphics cards or anything.

PS. I un hooked the power switch (on/off switch) and tried another because I couldnt even get it to turn on. changing the switch fixes this. I was gonna change the power supply but thought I'd try that first.

Thank you for your time.

-Dale

Depends on your BIOS as to what the beeps are. As far as I remember the long ~3 sec beep was related to either a loose video card, or loose RAM. If reseating them doesnt work, you can try resetting the BIOS with the CMOS reset jumper (requires new BIOS setup, if you don't understand, don't do it yourself). If that still doesn't fix it, you have either some dead parts and/or a bad power supply.

I suggest, if you have another computer, put your HDD into it and get your music and porn off it that way.

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Depends on your BIOS as to what the beeps are. As far as I remember the long ~3 sec beep was related to either a loose video card, or loose RAM. If reseating them doesnt work, you can try resetting the BIOS with the CMOS reset jumper (requires new BIOS setup, if you don't understand, don't do it yourself). If that still doesn't fix it, you have either some dead parts and/or a bad power supply.

I suggest, if you have another computer, put your HDD into it and get your music and porn off it that way.

+1 the easiest way is to just put the HDD in another computer and not bother stuffing around with the old one

Mandingo Proficient

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Yes I think I'll just end up doing that. Only problem is the only comp I got here to do it on is my old mans and if I mess that up im screwed. If I follow a guide off google say on installing it as a slave drive will I have any untowards problems because it has its own OS on it and what not??

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if you don't know what you're doing, get someone else to do it (ie putting hard disk in another computer).

Chances are in a computer that old, it's an IDE hard disk, most modern computers have done away with an IDE controller completely in favour of SATA (depending on chipset etc)

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if you don't know what you're doing, get someone else to do it (ie putting hard disk in another computer).

Chances are in a computer that old, it's an IDE hard disk, most modern computers have done away with an IDE controller completely in favour of SATA (depending on chipset etc)

Most new motherboards have at least 1 IDE port in my experience. Worst case scenario like Boz said ask someone who knows what there doing to help out.

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as I said, depends on the chipset, anything with a non cheap shit mobo (and even the Dell Optiplex post GX 620) dosen't have IDE.

OP: if you're not confident, have a look through youtube, it showed me how to replace the hard disk in a 24" Imac, and it still worked when I finished :D

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as I said, depends on the chipset, anything with a non cheap shit mobo (and even the Dell Optiplex post GX 620) dosen't have IDE.

OP: if you're not confident, have a look through youtube, it showed me how to replace the hard disk in a 24" Imac, and it still worked when I finished :bunny:

The new Asus boards still have IDE. For instance the Asus M4A89GTD PRO still has it. That isnt what i'd call cheap shit.

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well I dunno what this guy's dad is running, but it would be fairly safe to assume it's not running a name brand mobo. In addition that is a low end example; from what I've seen the cheaper chipsets with integrated graphics etc tend to have more legacy features like that.

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well I dunno what this guy's dad is running, but it would be fairly safe to assume it's not running a name brand mobo. In addition that is a low end example; from what I've seen the cheaper chipsets with integrated graphics etc tend to have more legacy features like that.

True, true Boz. Its probably something on the cheap side even it is a name brand. Chances are it has IDE like you say, worst case scenario IDE cards can be had for $20 at the local computer shop.

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