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    How do I go about that?
    You'll need the manual for your motherboard.


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    Sometimes a quiet buzzing when the test is running, otherwise I think it's fairly normal. Never know for sure though. The test always turns up OK.
    The test, is a test of the system RAM and not the HDD so it should be silent. Try to find exactly where the buzzing is coming from.

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    So I'll want to go into CMOS and go to "configure HDD model"?

    EDIT: In CMOS, it shows:

    IDE CHANNEL 0 MASTER - NONE
    IDE CHANNEL 0 SLAVE - NONE

    Drive A - NONE
    Halt On - All, But Keyboard
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    Usually there is an option in the CMOS setup to detect HDD devices. This will show you if the HDD is actually detectable or not. Beyond that I can't help you much, you'll have to check your manual, and if you don't have the manual, acquire one.
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    Above post edited. Also, I have a manual, and I'm trying to follow it, but I've never done this before.

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    The IDE Channels won't detect my HD. The SATA channels are not displayed at all.

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    Short question: New hard drive. Yes, no, maybe?

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    Judging from the sounds of it and my many many many many harddrive failures, I'd say you might need it.

    The error itself (DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRES ENTER) might mean you have a corrupt file partition or something like that. Anyways, are you sure that you can't access/do any diagnostics on your harddrive at all? If you can I guess you might want to see what Hard Drive Diagnostics says under XP which should be under Boot Setup which is F12 on my comp.
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