Hi Meir and all, The hard drive may have a "parking" problem. If you are confident that you can work on the inside of the computer safely, i.e. ground yourself first, then try this: Turn off the computer and anything attached to it. Unplug the computer and wait ten seconds. Unplug any other connected devices if necessary to open the side panel. Open the side panel and unplug the flat and wide ribbon cable from a PATA hard drive or the much thinner cable from a SATA hard drive. Leave the power connector attached to the drive. Power on the computer for a moment and then power down the machine. Disconnect power as before and re-attach the cable. This might not work as it is possible that the drive is simply starting to fail prematurely. Good luck.
Chuck ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:05:33 +0200 > From: "Meir Cahal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PCWorks: A bleeping computer > > I have a P4 with an Intel 3.0 MHz chip, 1GHz ram, mother board is > an > Asus. I have had the computer 3 months. All was fine until last > week, > now every few minuets the computer makes a bleep and the hard disk > clunks and the HD lights comes on. It does not seem to affect the > computer at all; it's just getting to be an annoyance. > I have looked in the power set up and all the setting are set to > never. > I have checked the Bios and nothing seems out of place. > So if anyone has an idea for me I would be very grateful. > Thanks in advance > Meir ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
