Fiery251
02-05-2002, 06:36 AM
HELP!!!!!!!.
I recently rebuilt a system that I had after I upgraded to my new Athlon XP.
Its a Pentium III500,64Mb PC100 SDRAM,ATI Rage128 16Mb AGP card,Trigem Napoli2 mobo,4.3Gb Seagate H/D,all running under W98.
Here is whats happening......
I had removed the original H/D from the above system to fit to my new PC......no problems there.....
I basically put everything back to standard and fitted a small 4.3Gb H/D from my old Pentium 120.It had been untouched and was simply removed from the P120 and fitted into the PIII500,it has W98 and some other programs and apps on it....and it worked perfectly before I moved it.
Now,when I boot up the PIII500,I get three beeps in quick succession during the POST...which I reckoned was memory related.So I removed the existing memory and fitted another stick.....still the same...3 beeps.I have tried 5 other sticks of memory,including a brand new one and it still does it.The first three sticks of memory I tried were the ones from my new system,which work perfectly in it.So it is not memory,but what else would make the POST beep 3 times?.
PLEASE KEEP READING.......I know this a long winded post!!!!!.
Ok,so it beeps 3 times at the post.Then it says "Error 202 http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gifrive not ready",and "insert system disk,press any key when ready".So I insert a W98 start up disk,select the CDROM support and:-,
I do that and it runs a few PCI Bus scans and complete`s them.
It then fires up RAMDRIVE correctly and the screen changes to:-
W98 has detected that Drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partition.It lists some possible causes for this to check.
It says it may need partitioned,but if you try FDISK,it says "No fixed Drives detected".
AH-HA!!!,you may think:-"Faulty Hard drive?".
NOPE!!!!.I took out the H/D and swapped it over to my new system,where it booted up first time,loaded windows and began going thru the "detecting new hardware" stuff....
So I am at a loss at what to do now...
Pleaze help.....if I have left out anything else you need to know,let me know what.....
I recently rebuilt a system that I had after I upgraded to my new Athlon XP.
Its a Pentium III500,64Mb PC100 SDRAM,ATI Rage128 16Mb AGP card,Trigem Napoli2 mobo,4.3Gb Seagate H/D,all running under W98.
Here is whats happening......
I had removed the original H/D from the above system to fit to my new PC......no problems there.....
I basically put everything back to standard and fitted a small 4.3Gb H/D from my old Pentium 120.It had been untouched and was simply removed from the P120 and fitted into the PIII500,it has W98 and some other programs and apps on it....and it worked perfectly before I moved it.
Now,when I boot up the PIII500,I get three beeps in quick succession during the POST...which I reckoned was memory related.So I removed the existing memory and fitted another stick.....still the same...3 beeps.I have tried 5 other sticks of memory,including a brand new one and it still does it.The first three sticks of memory I tried were the ones from my new system,which work perfectly in it.So it is not memory,but what else would make the POST beep 3 times?.
PLEASE KEEP READING.......I know this a long winded post!!!!!.
Ok,so it beeps 3 times at the post.Then it says "Error 202 http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gifrive not ready",and "insert system disk,press any key when ready".So I insert a W98 start up disk,select the CDROM support and:-,
I do that and it runs a few PCI Bus scans and complete`s them.
It then fires up RAMDRIVE correctly and the screen changes to:-
W98 has detected that Drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partition.It lists some possible causes for this to check.
It says it may need partitioned,but if you try FDISK,it says "No fixed Drives detected".
AH-HA!!!,you may think:-"Faulty Hard drive?".
NOPE!!!!.I took out the H/D and swapped it over to my new system,where it booted up first time,loaded windows and began going thru the "detecting new hardware" stuff....
So I am at a loss at what to do now...
Pleaze help.....if I have left out anything else you need to know,let me know what.....