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Problem Upgrading HDD on Presario M700
Anyone know what two flashing lights at the front means on installing a
blank HDD on an Armada M700? (Nothing else, not on pressing the power button or on pressing sideways the other button) There is nothing on the drive and I wanted to install an OS. It wont even think about looking at the floppy to see to start off it. I cant get anything more than these two flashing lights and a POWER button light lit on the top panel Taking the battery out doesnt seem to do anything nor does holding the buttons dwon for a few minutes (although it DOES send the power light on the top panel off until you take your finger off one of them) |
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In article , Maria Ripanykhazova
news.rnc.com@?.? writes Anyone know what two flashing lights at the front means on installing a blank HDD on an Armada M700? (Nothing else, not on pressing the power button or on pressing sideways the other button) There is nothing on the drive and I wanted to install an OS. It wont even think about looking at the floppy to see to start off it. I cant get anything more than these two flashing lights and a POWER button light lit on the top panel Taking the battery out doesnt seem to do anything nor does holding the buttons dwon for a few minutes (although it DOES send the power light on the top panel off until you take your finger off one of them) I cannot pretend I know the answers, however some pointers follow. Do you mean that you have the lights are flashing before you attempt to power on and when you attempt to power on, nothing happens. No lights flash, nothing on the screen and no beeps? Is this the primary hard drive or a drive in the multi-bay adapter? Reseat the new hard drive. Make sure it is fully home and none of the pins are bent. Can you get into the BIOS settings (F10 while the logo is on the screen during the power up) and make sure that your new drive is recognised. Why are attempting an upgrade, it may be significant. Where did you get your new drive from? Is it designed as an upgrade to the Armada M700? Was there a jumper (cable select/master/slave) on the old drive, have replicated this on the new drive? It may be worth replacing the RTC battery, on a machine this old. This battery is a button battery underneath the Modem/combo card. Remove the main battery and the external power supply before you attempt to change this. Allow 5 minutes between removing the old battery and inserting the new battery. This will reset the BIOS settings. I hope this helps. -- Nicholas David Richards - "Où sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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Many thanks for your advice: I have a sneaking suspicion it was 'all of the
above' (except for the battery which I haven't tried yet) but suddenly the unit sprang to life again Now I can try out my slipstreamed XP Pro SP2 install disc to see how well the creation process went. |
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In article , Maria Ripanykhazova
news.rnc.com@?.? writes Many thanks for your advice: I have a sneaking suspicion it was 'all of the above' (except for the battery which I haven't tried yet) but suddenly the unit sprang to life again Now I can try out my slipstreamed XP Pro SP2 install disc to see how well the creation process went. Good luck. Let me know how the install goes. The version I have for my Compaq laptop is pre SP1 and it takes me the best part of a day to install the updates. -- Nicholas David Richards - "Où sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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nbg
It stopped when the install couldn't find its own hard drive: which is odd as this computer wont start if there is no hard drive there!! "Nicholas D Richards" wrote in message ... In article , Maria Ripanykhazova news.rnc.com@?.? writes Many thanks for your advice: I have a sneaking suspicion it was 'all of the above' (except for the battery which I haven't tried yet) but suddenly the unit sprang to life again Now I can try out my slipstreamed XP Pro SP2 install disc to see how well the creation process went. Good luck. Let me know how the install goes. The version I have for my Compaq laptop is pre SP1 and it takes me the best part of a day to install the updates. -- Nicholas David Richards - "Où sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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Maria,
See my posting in this WG regarding installing on a Compaq 7461. Sounds like you've wired up the hard-drive to the wrong drive connector. Paul DS. |
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No, it is a laptop: I thought it might be something to do with the drive
coming off a Mac laptop but as I am formating the drive, it should at least be SEEN? (or doesnt a full install of XP Pro format the drive?) |
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In article , Paul
D.Smith writes Maria, See my posting in this WG regarding installing on a Compaq 7461. Sounds like you've wired up the hard-drive to the wrong drive connector. Paul DS. This would certainly explain the problem but I am not sure that this is the case this time. In the body of the original posting the PC is referred to as an Armada M700. I am not aware of a Presario M700, so I assume that we are dealing with an Armada, can you confirm this Maria? The Armada M700 is a laptop and the manual for this laptop shows that you slide the old drive out and the new drive in. However.... Unless the drive is being inserted in the multi-bay. The drive for the operating system should be the primary drive which is in the drive bay, located on the side of the laptop. If there are jumper settings on the drive that are not set correctly, then you will have problems. The jumpers are on the back, next to the data plug. They determine if the drive is being connected as a master, slave or the master/slave arrangement is determined by its position on the IDE cable (cable select). On my Compaq laptop the arrangement is Cable Select and the hard drive just slots in. Questions If you look at the back of your old drive is there a jumper shorting out two pins? If there is replicate this on your new drive and try to install again. What operating system do you have on the old drive? Why are you replacing the old drive? (eg it is too small or it does not work)? Why is the Mac drive now being taken out of the Mac? (eg the Mac was to receive a new drive or the Mac does not work)? What is the ex-MAC drive (manufacturer and model/part number) Do you have an original version of XP that you could load? I suggest that we go one step at a time. 1 Establish that the components are compatible 2 Establish that the components all work. 3 Partition the drive 4 Install an operating system from an original disk. 5 Try to install from the slipstreamed XP. -- Nicholas David Richards - "Où sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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or the Mac does not work)? Good point: There generally arent any jumpers on these laptop drives as they arent designed to be put in with other drives. (this may not be the case with that side-bay drive on the Armada but I didnt think you could load an OS on it?) I did put another empty drive unjumpered into the Armada and it loaded Windows 2000 succesfully so I thought I could load an OS onto an unformatted drive this easily. What is the ex-MAC drive (manufacturer and model/part number) The drive is a Toshiba 15 gig and running PowerMax.exe (I can't find a Toshiba test) shows it passes quick format tests and in the last stages fails the full advanced format test on some arcane point I may try to Partition the drive (Fdisk) on a desktop as you suggest |
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In article , Maria Ripanykhazova
news.rnc.com@?.? writes or the Mac does not work)? Good point: There generally arent any jumpers on these laptop drives as they arent designed to be put in with other drives. I did wonder whether there are any jumpers, the manual for the M700 does not show any jumper settings. (this may not be the case with that side-bay drive on the Armada but I didnt think you could load an OS on it?) I assume not, only on the primary drive. I did put another empty drive unjumpered into the Armada and it loaded Windows 2000 succesfully so I thought I could load an OS onto an unformatted drive this easily. Windows 2000 and XP do include everything required to partition and format a drive, and my experience has been that they are easy to use. What is the ex-MAC drive (manufacturer and model/part number) The drive is a Toshiba 15 gig I was hoping that you would find a model number. On the Toshiba's they begin MK followed by 4 digits and then 2 or three alpha characters. It probably does not matter now. and running PowerMax.exe (I can't find a Toshiba test) Nor could I shows it passes quick format tests and in the last stages fails the full advanced format test on some arcane point I am surprised you got that far; PowerMax is supposed to check that the drive is a Maxtor or a Quantum drive. I may try to Partition the drive (Fdisk) on a desktop as you suggest I meant you to do it in the M700, in the multibay or the primary position. I am running out of ideas now and am wondering if the drive is faulty. The trouble is, replacement parts for laptops are so expensive. -- Nicholas David Richards - "Où sont les neiges d'antan?" |
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