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Make a backup first :) And then try the in-place upgrade/repair trick, it should work fine on 2000.
Check out Rescue a Windows 2000 installation with an in-place upgrade for more info.
Insert the Windows 2000 CD into the drive, restart your system, and
boot from the CD. Once the initial preparation is complete, you’ll see
the Windows 2000 ...
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Shameless rip off of Chris S's excellent answer to a similar question over at Server Fault regarding the PCI-e spec:
What should be: The PCIe spec states that all slots start at 1x and neotiate how many lanes they can use. It shouldn't matter who has
more, some slots are designed to take larger cards and smaller cards
fit in larger slots. Whatever ...
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Your motherboard is now dead and needs to be replaced.
There is a bug with Samsung UEFI (similar to BIOS) that means that Linux can completely brick the mobo.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6734/samsung-laptop-uefi-bugs-not-just-for-linux
How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it - The Register
I really wish the news were better but I ...
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Beep codes are BIOS specific. From what I can tell the Omron NSA-CPU01-E uses the Phoenix BIOS. Here is a link to a page explaining all the beep codes. You want the very last table explaining the Phoenix BIOS beep codes: http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
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If the motherboard has integrated graphics you could try removing the graphics card and try to get a signal out of that.
If that fails then it's most likely that the CPU or motherboard has failed - but without the POST beeps it's virtually impossible to tell.
Another thing that springs to mind is that you might have a memory failure. Do you have two ...
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Go to your BIOS settings.. Set your hard drive at a higher priority than your CD/DVD drive in your boot sequence.
Sounds like you have a hardware failure of some kind. Place a higher priority on backups now. If you're having this problem now, you may have deeper problems about to emerge. Though it's possible your optical drive is just screwed up a bit and ...
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I've personally ran into a similar (if not the same) situation some time ago. I cannot say for certain what exactly causes the issue as it seemed to have happened out of the blue for me, couldn't say for sure I did anything to trigger the problem (the only thing I suspected was installing a Kext for some research I was doing...)
I fixed the problem by ...
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Hopefully you've got it fixed by now but for anyone else who is looking, I had the same problem. My problem started after a failed install attempt of seagate firmware drivers. Wouldn't boot in safe mode, wouldn't complete a working system restore, etc.. I fixed it by booting from the Windows CD in repair mode and opening a command prompt. It read:
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the beep codes are there for a reason! they tell you whats wrong. The best thing to do is check the computer manufacturers website, however you didnt provide that info.
Check this out though, it will give you an idea.
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Nice diagnostics you did there. I'm betting on your HDD's motherboard being fried, sort of speak. In this case, your first option is to try getting another identical board and get it replace. I had almost the same issue. Now that HDD stands somewhere in a drawer, I couldn't find a replacement for the board, even at the manufacturer, as they didn't produce ...
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I agree with Radoo on your diagnostics. You just need to trust your instincts.
Dell was wrong. This is not a motherboard issue. This is a HardDrive issue, and you proved it by removing the HardDrive from the equation.
Now... how do you recover the information? Again, Radoo is pretty much on the money. The only thing he didn't mention was a USB HDD ...
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Gosh, that sounds awful. I have had similar issues, but it did end up being a faulty HDD. Your issue, though, sounds like a defective motherboard if you can't even get to the BIOS.
To see if it's the RAM, remove one stick and try booting. If it still doesn't boot, take that stick out and put the other back in. The chances of both being bad are slim.
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See Where can I download Windows 8 legally, from Microsoft? and Re-download Windows 8 setup without purchasing it again using Upgrade Assistant for instructions on how you can re-download the setup files on another PC.
This time, when you launch the installer using the link from your confirmation mail, be sure to select the following options so you can ...
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The smartctl utility from smarmontools can help you to check and test your hard drive.
You can check your hard drive SMART values using:
# smartctl -A /dev/sda
But more importantly, you can test your hard drive using:
# smartctl -t [short,long] /dev/sda
And check the results:
# smarctl -l selftest /dev/sda
You can also use the badblocks utility but ...
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Not savy? Sounds like you tried all the right stuff and reported the critical info.
Apparently you've attached a verified working battery and/or power supply and no lights were on.
That's an indication that points to a bad motherboard. At that point in your testing, if you had a bad hard drive or memory or missing OS, you would have at least gotten the ...
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I would try taking out the CMOS battery, cleaning the battery and contacts with alcohol and then putting it back. If it's disposable, not rechargeable, battery swapping to new one might also be useful.
Problems in cold POST can also be related to power circuitry being slightly bad. Slightly but not totally broken capacitors sometimes take some time to ...
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Expanding on wetware hacking's point, it's likely that something, somewhere is not making a good connection. Could be the CPU, could be an expansion card, could be a cable.
Buy some cable cleaner. Remove every cable, clean the contacts where possible, and reattach them. Don't forget where each one goes!
Also remove and reseat all expansion cards. Wearing ...
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I installed windows 8 on another drive. I booted an Ubuntu live cd and mounted my new installation as read-only. Then I copied hiberfil.sys from my new installation to the old windows installation. At this point my old installation was able to successfully repair itself upon restart.
Some programs are missing though.
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If you follow the above mentioned criteria;
Always use anti-static wrist bands
Use very little thermal paste
Be careful of cleaning, this can cause static energy too.
Whats "alot of pressure". Yes, you need some pressure, but not alot.
You should be fine. However, I'd like to touch on a few things, beginning with the anti-static wrist bands and ...
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When you reset the BIOS, the SATA controller might have changed modes from AHCI to IDE (or vice versa). If this is the case, then the system will POST okay, but when Windows tries to start up, it will die with a blue-screen "inaccessible boot device". Try the several options for the SATA controller in your BIOS.
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Are the memory modules single-sided?
Because of Intel chipset limitation, please use single-side memory
module if four memory modules are to be installed.
From the Gigabyte support site (same info for both versions) here
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Never assume you will get an alert. Test your file system/hard drives; look into tools such as SpinRite, and check with Dell and (better) your HDD's manufacturer for diagnostics utilities specific to your drive.
As always, try to make a backup first.
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You will need access to a system that has a DVD burner to start.
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-repair-windows-7-from-usb-flash-drive-repair-without-installation-dvd-disc/
Have not had to try this procedure myself, but give this a try and let us know what happens.
Sarge
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You need to contact Omron directly.
They make embedded systems for use in industrial environments.
I'm guessing this is the type of PC you're referring to.
At the bottom of that PDF are the contact numbers / e-mail addresses for Omron worldwide.
Edit: Seeing as you're from Slovakia Here are the contact details
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You said that even after removing all drives except the main hardrive, it still tried to access X:
So:
Either in the BIOS boot, you have disabled booting from C:.
Your C:\ harddisk has bad sectors.
Try downloading SeaTools from SeaGate (Tool to detect hard drive failure), burn the ISO to disk and boot using the tool.
Run the tool and if it says that ...
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