Compaq Presario 5000 Series, Maintenance And Service Manual

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The system is trying to start
from the hard drive but the
hard disk has been damaged.
Insert a bootable disk into the
disk drive and restart the
computer with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Disk boot has been disabled in
Computer Setup.
Run Computer Setup and
enable disk drives.
Hard drive operation seems
slow, or hard drive activity
light is not on, or stays on
without blinking.
The hard disk files may be
fragmented.
From the desktop click on the
Start menu, Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, and
check for problems. If problems
exist, run scandisk and
checkmark the "Automatically
fix errors" box at the bottom to
correct the problems. If a large
enough allocation units is
found, click on the Start button
and choose Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk
Defragmenter.
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Hardware Installation
Problem Probable Cause(s) Possible Solutions
A new device is not
recognized as part of the
computer system.
When the system advised you
of changes to the
configuration, you did not save
the changes.
Reboot the computer and follow
the instructions for saving
changes.
The system may not have
automatically recognized the
new device.
Run Computer Setup and
identify the device.
The cables for the new
external device are loose, or
the power cables are
unplugged.
Check all cables.