Paging Dr Cane - the pc surgeon.

I have a problem booting up my new to me pc. I've tried three hard
drives in it but every time I try to boot it up it goes so far then
tells me to remove disk or media from the drives. There are no disks or
anything in any of the drives.

Please Doc, what shall I do?

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Got any flash drives (SD cards, etc.) or USB devices plugged in? Try
unplugging them and booting.

How for does it get before it tells you to remove whatever from the
drives?

 

Shit in the carbs.

 

BGN says...

It has usb devices plugged in, but they are easily removed obviously.

When I start up it recognises the drives etc, but that's as far as it'll
go.

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So it's not getting past the POST (Power-On Self Test) I assume there
are no obvious errors returned? Does the computer 'bleep' at you (and
if it does how many long/short bleeps are there as they mean
something)

If I were you I'd unplug all of the USB devices (including USB mice,
hubs, etc.) and see if that helps. If not then ask Cane

What's the model of your motherboard and/or BIOS?

 

BGN says...

It beeps once just like a fully functioning puter, scrolls through the
black and white lsistings bit until so far then it gives the message
"remove disks or media from drives" all usb devices are unplugged.

Asus A7S266-VM motherboard, not a clue about the BIOS.

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Question mode = really dumb

you do have an OS on those discs?

Try booting from CD

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Catman says...

On one of them for definite, still no go.

That's the next step.

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Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
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Christofire says...

It's empty, but I'll disconnect it anyway.

Just about to have another try, XP disc at the ready just in case.


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Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

Lozzo says...

Bad form etc..

and that didn't work

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Lozzo says...

....and that didn't work either.

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Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
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Bear says...

"I shagga the one ear..."

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Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
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Bear says...

"that wassa the Flook"

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Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

BGN says...

When I first fire it up I get two short and very soft muffled bongs
followed by a short beep.

I've tried unplugging each dvd drive and then both, tried unplugging the
floppy drive and it's the same. The only external connections are for
monitor and hard wired mouse and keyboard. There are no usb connections
made and no network card connected.

There is an SCSI card in one of the pci slots and I'm wondering if I
should remove that altogether as I'm not likely to use any SCSI devices.
Apart from that all there is is an unused network card, dvd rw, dvd
drive and a floppy drive. It's been left pretty basic until I get the
thing running on XP and then I'll start swopping bits from my old one
into this case.

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
Homefucking is killing prostitution.

 

Sounds like a BIOS problem to me.

 

If it's an Award BIOS I think 1 + 2 = Video adaptor error (or is that
2+1?) Anyway, what you're describing don't sound like bleep codes.

Have you tried unplugged ALL of the drives and seeing if it still
gives the same error?

Remove the SCSI card. Destroy!!!

 

Duh.

 

One short beep-There is a problem with the memory refresh circuits on
the motherboard.

Five short beeps-The CPU is indicating an error.

Eight short beeps-The video card (also called graphics card or video
adapter) is missing, is not responding to the BIOS POST, or has faulty
memory.

One long and three short beeps-The monitor or video RAM has failed. If
you confirm these devices are functioning properly, check other parts
of the video system.

 

Did you go in to the BIOS settings and specifically set the boot
sequence to CD before HDD? Possibly disable floppy drive seek if there
is an option for that.
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Pete Fisher says...

I didn't, but I will.

Thanks.

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