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On 26 Jul 2003 13:13:33 -0700, weft2@rogers.com (flan) wrote:
>Thanks for all the feedback from everybody. I did open the machine,
>and on the HD metal brace is printed: 36 40mb- but this is scratched
>out with pen, and in place is written: 40 116.  It's a Maxtor HD
>7120AT/HDA 22A/PCBA 66A/Unique 30A/Z,D,B. I hooked the pc up with the

The spec sheet for the Maxtor 7120AT hard drive is available here:

http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/quick_specs/quick_specs_7000_3524.pdf

>cover still off & powered it up, and tried reentering the HDU settings
>using the info on the HD metal brace. It made no difference. Though,
>there's no option in the 2nd HDU requester to put in a blank or "none
>installed"; the only option is to put in the 2 numbers. And as far as

Hmm.. just what are the two number fields labeled as?  Typically a
BIOS looks for the number of heads, cylinders and sectors for a drive,
so I would expect there to be three spaces.  Perhaps this is looking
for something totally different?  Is it just two digits?  If that's
the case, try entering type 47, which is the old number for a
user-defined hard drive, which hopefully then should ask you for the
heads, cylinders and sectors as listed in the above document.

>I can see there clearly is NO 2nd HD in the pc. The pc still makes the
>initial 4 beeps with the cover off AND WITH the battery disconnected,
>and it definitely sounds like the beeps are still coming from the HD.

Beeps are probably coming from a speaker stuck underneath the HD, I've
never heard a hard drive beep before! :>

>Re: the battery I disconnected, all I could see (no watch type
>batteries) on the pc (and that's the areas not covered by the power
>supply, and the drives, which I assume isn't MB area) was the battery
>I disconnected: a ~3" x 2" square battery that says: Computer clock
>battery 844/Rayovac 4.5 volts." It was attached to the MB just behind
>the HD with a small 4 pin black connector. The battery has the usual
>red & white wires coming out (+ extra wire spliced by the techie, I
>assume, to make up the distance), and I tested it and it's reading 3.3
>v.  Well below the 4.5 v, but is that enough to be considered dead/the
>possible cause of the problems, if it is even the battery?

Yup, that's probably the reason for all your troubles.  Bring the
battery into a computer store and see if they can get you a
replacement, it'll probably only cost about $5.