I have 2 old computers. One was not working so I swapped the hard drive with the one that does work. Now neither work. When I put the original back in the working machine, it runs but I have no video. Any suggestions?
2007-03-16 16:32:41 · 5 answers · asked by Pat K 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The operating system on the hard drive from the old one essentially woke up on the new one and said "hey why the heck is all the hardware different?" and it got really confused. I've had the same thing happen to me a few times. What's best is to put the old drive in the new computer as a secondary drive, but keep the original drive in there as the primary. This way the computer will load its own OS, but you can access the old machine's files.
2007-03-16 16:42:40 · answer #1 · answered by Chip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You better to not play with that if you don't know how it work.
About the hard disk be sure the bios is correctly configured to master and not slave ...etc
About your video card you probably just move it a little bit. push on it and you will hear a click.
Good Luck!
2007-03-16 23:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by lollol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Replace the video card in the one that has no video but a working hard drive, or, if the video is an onboard card, ie, doesn't use a pci slot, you can get a pci card and install it and just go in and disable your onboard video..
2007-03-16 23:36:50 · answer #3 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
swapping hard disks should not affect the video. If you can open the case, see if you have an external display adaptor, take it out, wipe it with a dry cloth, blow dust off the conectors and reinsert it.
2007-03-16 23:38:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot up with floppy or CD and format and install windows.
2007-03-16 23:45:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋