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I have 5yr old tiny computer that has not been used for around 3 yrs i turned it on today but the harddrive just alarms and will not start up
and i have lost the manual
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I doubt the service person did anything wrong. In today's cars with both engine and body computers, jump starting a car can be risky. You're better off having the battery charged for an hour or so then trying to start it. You may have to have the body computer scanned and possibly flashed to get everything working again. The body computer controls everything you mentioned. It could have lost some of the factory programming when the system was dead.
kindly let me know the beep code sequence (the alarm) which you are getting. Just switch on the computer and carefully listen the alarm one long continuous beep or short beep or one long followed by one short. This information is necessary for providing you the solution. Online chat would have been more helpful to restore your pc.
the drive may be dead soon....so i suggest you get a new drive ASAP...u can continue using it as long as it fails compleletly...
but the end may come sooner or later
had it been a desktop u could have used this old drive as a data drive(slave) after installing a new drive for your system drive...(primary disk)
I would just try and come out straight to you, that your harddrive has very much likely to have crashed. Hard Drives are generally Very Fragile because of the Tiny Read/Write head that is inside. The moment it drops on the floor it might have got broken. and that is why you are hearing the funny noise...although it will still keep spinning because the voltage is still being supplied onto it, but you might not be able to read or write anything onto it. Sorry. Hope this helps. Goodluck.
Hello.
It sounds like you might have a problem with the power supply.
I have seen MANY external hard drives with failing power supplies.
Take it to the store you purchased it from for a check up, it should still be under warrantee if its only 3 months old.
Good Luck!
You should be able to slave the old harddrive to the new one regardless of manufacturer. In the event that the drive is not "browseable" via Windows explorer, you should still be able to use DOS commands to copy the data files from the old harddrive to the new one.
Get inside the car, turn the key to the on position, the alarm is going to sound so do not panic when the alarm sounds press the valet button one time and the alarm should stop. To place the alarm in valet mode cycle the key with the door open on then off then press the valet button one time and the alarm should go into valet mode meaning the alarm light will be on steady.
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