PBC: 1 Loooooooooooong Beep

[NeoStarO1]

Okay im looking at this page
here.

It doesn't say how long or short the beeps are, the computer that im working on just plays one Looooooooooooooooooooong beep code till i press F2.

Can someone tell me what that is? That way I can go to the next step.

If this is any indicator at the screen there is a ssed.

TIA

[NeoStarO1]

Well just had my boyfriend help me out with the sound he says, its a constant beep beep beep beep beep fast like.

Im to assume this means no os is found?

Also says No OS found. So that part of the problem. grrr.

Thanks.

[daveleau]

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

It is either RAM or video. Try reseating both and then try different RAM and video.

Good luck
Dave

[NeoStarO1]

Okay, I'll check those things out,

Thing is I also can't even boot with a start up disk so that must mean something on the longs the lines of what you said so will swap those first and see what happens.

thanks, will post back my findings.

[NeoStarO1]

ugH, i can't seem to get an ID on the memory, from searching what numbers i see on the mem chip.

on back there is sticker. says.

AS7M64T3256A-15
M96034

Any idea what this is?

[daveleau]

Hard to tell. What are your system specs (system model number (if a pre-built system from Compaq or other company), motherboard and processor). That will give us a clue.

[NeoStarO1]

dave,

well its an ole 120 cpu, mb unknown and frankly I don't know much about this, Im scrapping this machine but the guy who owns it wants his 55mb of files backuped. i have another system i plan to wipe out the hard drive then re install the os and everything.

My plans were to boot this and stick a tempoary second drive in as data and toss the data onto that drive just so i can use the hard drive.

I can't tell much about the computer itself other than on the case it says its a NEC Ready 9600sf.

Trying to look up info. Im not realy that concern of fixing it, i just want to be able to use the hard drive and its not really recommended to just swap drives to a completely different system.

[NeoStarO1]

well not the vid card, I guess its the memory, Not sure if i have one to swap, maybe from one of the old 486's in the garage, but can't do till i figure out how to id this thing.

[NeoStarO1]

Alright, new task I guess.
Just talk to the guy that owns it who happens to be a good friend of mine. Reason im doing this work is cuz he had some new parts that I wanted.

Anyhow, I said not much I can do at this point since this machine is gonna be scrapped anyways with the exception of some parts. Like the HDD.

My New Question: is can i put the hard drive in the "newer" machine and stay at a dos prompt to save certain selected files?

That is my next plan now.

Really hate it when people don't back up thier stuff.

[Mntsnow]

Short answer is Yes. (if Fat, fat32 easy) if NTFS still do able but a bit more tricky