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[DStain]

The Sata cable for 0 drive must be connected onto 0 Sata port on the motherboard, check with the manual and it will show the Sata port number position. Swap the cable and the drive, make sure that the graphics card is slotted in properly and the bios points to AGP, PCI or PCIEX1 or 16 depending on the card type.

Can you confirm that you can't hear any beeps at all with all the hardware removed and the CPU fan runs?

Deric

[redk9258]

A lot of motherboards do not have a speaker (beeper) anymore so he may never hear a beep unless he has a speaker connected to the motherboard. The PC should boot from the Ghost CD or Windows DVD with no hard drives connected. Try doing that and make sure everything that is not needed is disconnected. In other words try to boot with only your mouse, keyboard, monitor and DVD/CD drive connected.

[tavie888]

Hello red and Deric, When I turned on the PC with all RAM sticks removed, I can hear a series of beeps. Turning on PC with both SATA hard drives disconnected (but CD/DVD drive still connected), DVD tray accepted Windows 7 DVD, but the DVD does not load. Putting the SATA drives back on, Win 7 DVD still doesn't load after reboot. The SATA drives are connected properly, as my PC has worked until recently. Something is not working between Power On Self Test (POST) and reading the boot code in the hard disk containing Windows. No matter what I try, the BIOS setup screen keeps appearing. Note that I have never updated the BIOS since I first bought the PC several years ago.

[DStain]

Ok, the board seems fine, here is a rundown of the "beep" sounds.

1 short = system boot ok

2 short = cmos setting error

1 long 1 short = memory or motherboard error

1 long 2 short = monitor or graphics card error

1 long 3 short = keyboard error

1 long 9 short = BIOS rom error

Continuous long beeps = graphics card not inserted properly

Continuous short beeps power error.

What beeps do you hear?

Deric

[DStain]

Getting late for me now, can you try a different Sata drive and boot with that connected on port 0 you should get 1 beep and a message ntldr missing or no operating system or words to that effect.

Deric

[tavie888]

Hello everyone, I can now boot into Linux distros on my PC and everything works on that side, including the DVD drive. I also did manage to do a repair installation of Windows 7, but after a long time and a reboot the recovered Windows version is not my Windows 7 Home Premium, but rather an evaluation copy of Win 7 (Build 7100) which I totally forgot about! Because of this, I want to delete the drive that has the evaluation copy and repeat the repair installation. Before doing another repair installation, I would like to be able to backup or clone the 2 hard drives: 250 GB containing Linuxes, evaluation copy of Win 7 Build 7100, and SRP of Win 7 Home Premium (I don't know how Windows placed the SRP on another disk, i.e. not on the same disk as Win 7 Home Premium). 320 GB containing Win 7 Home Premium Now when I boot into the recovered Win 7, I see 2 drives: C: is evaluation copy of Win 7 Build 7100 (which I don't want) E: my own Win 7 Home Premium (which I want, and was the original C:) A question: 1. Can I delete Ghost from the lady's old HD and install it in my own Win 7 Home Premium ( I paid for it), once I am able to back up and restore Win 7 Home Premium? I found the reason I was not able to copy the lady's HD via Ghost is in her PC, BIOS indicates the machine is a thin client of a network. In any case, I cannot boot into her old HD anymore and had bought another PC for her. Previously I had to activate the licence key in her HD in order to be able to copy it to a larger disk. The good intention is there but I failed. This is why I am asking if I can install and activate Ghost in my own PC using the same licence key. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks a lot for your help.

[redk9258]

You can install Ghost on another PC as long as you remove the first. There is no online activation or anything, just the key you enter.

About a repair install for Windows 7... Is there really such a thing? I thought you can only do a startup repair. If you do a Windows repair, it is basically a new install with your old install backed up so you can undo the new install if necessary.

[tavie888]

Hello red, 1. I will delete Ghost installation program & files from her old HD. Thanks for your reply. 2. Yes, there's a thing called repair installation according to MS.

[redk9258]

I guess you have to be able to boot Windows 7 and run setup from withing Windows to get the option. You can no longer do an offline repair to a system that won't boot.