computer relief?

i hold a dell computer with a 80 see hard drive i am very soon trying to add a 40 see drive however my computer is not boothing i have 2 short beep on system post but it failed to booth as per ordinary now my com have 768 ddr memory and a dvd along with a cd drive i made sure tht the master slave is set correctly but its still tripping i tried it a couple of times and it worked i be able to booth my notebook and view adjectives the drives in my computer including my unusual hard drive i dissconnected it to check it again but immediately the system is tripping again same 2 beeps and cannot locate master slave drive can some one present me some advice plz .

computer relief?

apply pressure on ddr memory I don`t know it is not mounted properly.
jumpers put money on of harddrive need to be used to, also go into your bios settings check if drive is detected
2 beep...I suspect RAM

First try reseating the RAM as you may have dislodged it



subsequent run this Memory tester

http://www.memtest86.com/
do you hear the HD's firing up? it might be a IDE controller failer

Unplug ide cable from mainboard, if proplem stops, check HD's stats (master, slave, c/s etc..)

Did you include a new cd dvd-rom?, unplug the other settle (or all ide) and see what happen



if you put new RAM surrounded by, tke it out, see if problems stop (Leave only one RAM stick contained by while testing). Some ram is not compatable together, espically surrounded by a computer that's has a picky cmos such as dell



did you include any video?, remove it

did you play with the CPU, Make sure it's mounted properly
your inferior hd (40 gig) is also set to master. Change the dip switch to slave drive.