Problem With Hard Drive

[Jmisiolek]

I have A Maxtor 40gb hard drive that came out of another pc. I was able to install the hard dive as a second hard drive into my HP computer and was detected in the bios as the slave and in MY computer. Bt when I boot the computer and get the Win Xp Welcome Screen the built in speaker on the computer makes a continuous beep noise. The speaker does not make any noise until I get the welcome screen. I am not sure if I need to set the Jumpers on the hard drives to the cable select positions or to change somthing in the bios to stop the beep noise. I did not run Fdisk or format the drive yet.
Any Advise would be great.

 

[Lemon13]

is the keyboard working?
did you jumper as slave? try on 2nd controller as master (unplug cd/dvd).
unplug the beeper, boot and load windows.
try to disable beeper in registry(i think there is a key, ask google/forum).
check for hardware failure in device manager, irq/memory conflicts, check system logs. also run diskmanager and partition/format the drive.
if you don´t find any problems check if beeping is gone.
if it´s still there run stress tests/aida32/sisoft sandra/memtest.
if pc is still working fine just leave beeper unplugged, do a system backup and ignore it.