Hey there,
Ive got a Packard Bell Pulsar 600. It had a 10Gb hard disk 5400rpm (IDE) originally, a Pentium 3 600Mhz processor (socket 370) and 512Mb RAM. Just now I have replaced the hard disk with a brand new Hitachi Deskstar 160Gb 7200rpm (IDE) and also upgraded the processor to a Pentium 3 900Mhz (although its showing up in "System" as 701Mhz). I booted to a Windows 98 boot disk and used Fdisk partition the new drive, then reboot and then format c: to make the drive usable. From the very start though there was this intermitant siren like beeping coming from the tower that lasts about 4 seconds each time. Sometimes it would stop for quite a while and then come back for a while. After completing the format process I rebooted and the run the XP Pro setup. Again, intermittantly I the PC would make this siren like beep during the setup. Even now the setup is complete and XP is installed, the PC is still occasionally making this sound. The hard disk is only showing up as a 130Gb so I cant understand where the other 30Gb has gone and I did tell Fdisk to use the maximum amount of space. Also when starting up it gets to the XP logo and the little progress bar starts moving but then hangs for a quite a bit, then starts again and then hangs a little bit more. Then the logo screen dissappears and the PC just hangs for about a minute then suddenly the hard disk spins up and brings up the desktop.
I bit of a mouth full I know, sorry.
Can anyone tell me what going on???? Could it be that it doesn't like the faster processor Ive put in it?? or maybe the hard disk?? Does anyone know what that siren like beeping is or what it means??
Im going to try putting original processor back in when I can but thought Id ask everyone on here about it.
Damien
Ive got a Packard Bell Pulsar 600. It had a 10Gb hard disk 5400rpm (IDE) originally, a Pentium 3 600Mhz processor (socket 370) and 512Mb RAM. Just now I have replaced the hard disk with a brand new Hitachi Deskstar 160Gb 7200rpm (IDE) and also upgraded the processor to a Pentium 3 900Mhz (although its showing up in "System" as 701Mhz). I booted to a Windows 98 boot disk and used Fdisk partition the new drive, then reboot and then format c: to make the drive usable. From the very start though there was this intermitant siren like beeping coming from the tower that lasts about 4 seconds each time. Sometimes it would stop for quite a while and then come back for a while. After completing the format process I rebooted and the run the XP Pro setup. Again, intermittantly I the PC would make this siren like beep during the setup. Even now the setup is complete and XP is installed, the PC is still occasionally making this sound. The hard disk is only showing up as a 130Gb so I cant understand where the other 30Gb has gone and I did tell Fdisk to use the maximum amount of space. Also when starting up it gets to the XP logo and the little progress bar starts moving but then hangs for a quite a bit, then starts again and then hangs a little bit more. Then the logo screen dissappears and the PC just hangs for about a minute then suddenly the hard disk spins up and brings up the desktop.
I bit of a mouth full I know, sorry.
Can anyone tell me what going on???? Could it be that it doesn't like the faster processor Ive put in it?? or maybe the hard disk?? Does anyone know what that siren like beeping is or what it means??
Im going to try putting original processor back in when I can but thought Id ask everyone on here about it.
Damien