I bought a backup hard drive off of ebay for my Gateway 4SX33 with Windows 3.1 and wanted to make sure it worked (WD Caviar 2340)
I replaced my working hard drive with the "new" one and got 3 long beeps. Then I put the original hard drive back in and got the same 3 long beeps. Then I realized that I had forgotten to attach power to the floppy drive. I didn't get the beeps any more and it sounded like a normal start up but I got a black screen. I put the "new" hard drive in again and got the same results so I reinstalled the original hard drive. I still get a black screen. I attached the monitor to a different computer and it works fine.
I unplugged and re-plugged in all of the cables to make sure there was a good connection on everything. The battery is new.
Any idea of what I did wrong and what to do to fix the problem?
Thanks a lot.
Steve L
I replaced my working hard drive with the "new" one and got 3 long beeps. Then I put the original hard drive back in and got the same 3 long beeps. Then I realized that I had forgotten to attach power to the floppy drive. I didn't get the beeps any more and it sounded like a normal start up but I got a black screen. I put the "new" hard drive in again and got the same results so I reinstalled the original hard drive. I still get a black screen. I attached the monitor to a different computer and it works fine.
I unplugged and re-plugged in all of the cables to make sure there was a good connection on everything. The battery is new.
Any idea of what I did wrong and what to do to fix the problem?
Thanks a lot.
Steve L
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