high pitch sound!

bluefoot · 03:43 AM

I just got a refurbished hp xw6000 2.8 Ghz xeon prosessor There were a couple of things I wasn't so happy about. First it makes a rather shrill sound. I hear its normal. More so, the hardrive is said to be undetected or unpowered just before windows xp may attempt to install.

I've learned just after posting this that windows xp is set to automatically detect drives yet it doesnt always work. so I had to go to hp for the proper driver. Now I must install it.

JBotAlan · 14-May-2005, 08:26 AM #2

Why did you put this thread under development? Oh well...

It sounds like hard disk failiure. Can you use a boot floppy or CD to go into DOS and see if it is there? If the drive is accessable from DOS, then it's XP that's screwed up. If you can't access it from DOS, I'd bet it's screwed up at the hardware level.

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