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 | You will have to reinstall the windows. Changing CPU means that windows will no longer work, because it was set up to work with your old CPU. If you meand by "repair disc" a setup CD, then just place your hd in your friend's laptop and format it via setup … |
| | Settle down and be more specific, man. How many beeps (I figure that's what you said by "pulsating"), (short, long) and wich motherboard do you have. |
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| | Did you plug in all the power cables? Are you sure about that switch? Try shorting the 2 pins the switch is plugged on. The CMOS battery should be ok, regarding it's age.  |
| | Looks to me like it's a done deal. If it is a fryed mobo then you cann't do much about it. Except salvage (probably fryed too) memory sticks and HD. :-| |
| | Is there a Floppy drive? I don't know Sony laptops very well, but I do know that HP laptops do not store BIOS settings in a FLASH ROM. Instead they use hard disc. So if that is the case then try obtaining a boot floppy disc for that particular model. … |
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| | read the thread [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread44945.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread44945.html[/URL] |
| | It is possible that you need 3rd party driver (so called F8 driver). Try your manufacturers site for support. |
| | Similar thing happened to me (regarding the hard-drive and CD-ROM) when I (stupid me) plugged the IDE cable upside-down. Luckly for me, I didn't do any damage. My machine was acting dead just like yours ('till I plugged it right again). Yet, you say you drove it in your car. … |
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| | Just plug it in and turn it on. The new HD is Serial ATA drive and it is always the master one. Old one is IDE HD and can be set to slave (there is a jumper for that on the drive). Just don't plug the cable upside down. Make … |
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| | You will have to get Pro SP2. I had problems installing xp pro (first edition) on my machine (built it my self). If You're using (s/p)ata hd (in my case ASUS A8N-SLI MBO with NForce4), the setup progam cannot format it without (so-called) f6 driver for the controller. Pro SP2 … |
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