Hello everyone, I am experiencing a problem far too unique to even attempt googling this.
I have a PC from around the early to mid 2000s that I've started messing around with, and I changed this CD-Rom drive with a DVD drive.
Once i closed everything back up and booted up the system...I got a beep code, 1 long, 8 short. I googled this, and it appears to be a video card error. The hard drive spins up, I can hear the speakers for a second, ethernet lights and activity lights are on, but no fan activity at all.
Confused, I decided to reseat everything in case I knocked a cable loose, and as soon as I flicked the PSU switch on, it booted up, Windows XP loaded, and I was able to confirm that my DVD drive does work. After I turned it off though, put the side panel back on, it just throws the same error. I tried reseating everything again, but no luck.
I have an AGP Card (ATI 9800 Pro) and I know those usually don't have a very long lifespan. But I wouldn't imagine it dying like this, after simply changing a DVD drive. Especially since I saw it work fine for that one moment.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
MSI 865PE Neo2-v
1 GB DDR Ram
P4 2.8 GHz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (as previously mentioned)
80 GB HDD (sata)
IDE DVD-ROM drive
I have a PC from around the early to mid 2000s that I've started messing around with, and I changed this CD-Rom drive with a DVD drive.
Once i closed everything back up and booted up the system...I got a beep code, 1 long, 8 short. I googled this, and it appears to be a video card error. The hard drive spins up, I can hear the speakers for a second, ethernet lights and activity lights are on, but no fan activity at all.
Confused, I decided to reseat everything in case I knocked a cable loose, and as soon as I flicked the PSU switch on, it booted up, Windows XP loaded, and I was able to confirm that my DVD drive does work. After I turned it off though, put the side panel back on, it just throws the same error. I tried reseating everything again, but no luck.
I have an AGP Card (ATI 9800 Pro) and I know those usually don't have a very long lifespan. But I wouldn't imagine it dying like this, after simply changing a DVD drive. Especially since I saw it work fine for that one moment.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
MSI 865PE Neo2-v
1 GB DDR Ram
P4 2.8 GHz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (as previously mentioned)
80 GB HDD (sata)
IDE DVD-ROM drive