First post, by KirillK
Khm. Sorry about posting problems as a first post. I recently got my hands on this PC and I have some problem that I can't solve myself.
First of all. The machine itself is in a pretty good shape. At least from my view. No dust(almost), no any visible damages inside. POSTing correctly. Buuuut, all my tries to boot it into something failed.
Here is what I have.
System have HDD, 3'5 and CD-ROM, probably everything works.(I can't check it on different PC, this is the only machine with IDE and FDD in house) But fdd and CD spins, open-closes, and from mechanical view looks pretty ok.
The system In it's original state writed "Invalid partition table" and than hang on completely after POST.(No errors in post, all tests PASSED) but no reaction on anything but power sw after.
After I formated the Hard drive(it's not original, it's much newer 10gig quantum fireball lct 20) a few times in different ways (using USB-IDE adapter and 32 bit Windows 7 on a notebook(the only machine that supported this old hardware at all at home) the message dissappeared. But system halts no matter what.
Hard drive works like a charm in USB-IDE case, no errors, no problems, checked surface - everything is fine.
But when it's inside vectra after it POSTing and starting to boot(anything, I tried preinstallation of 95(formated+copy, but before running setup), 98, different versions of DOS, It gives me 2 very short beeps(nothing like POST sounded, not even close) and stops. If it's DOS, the machine gives me the "Starting MS-DOS..." prompt and the same two beeps after. Than it stoppes loading, but with DOS it's not hanging completely, ctrl+alt+delete works and sending machine to reboot.
I do not have possibility to reformat HDD and install any OS natively on Vectra for now, it have no boot from CD(obviously) and I have no any bootable floppies or even possibiliy to make one.
Any suggestions what this mysterious two beeps can mean? I do not have any docs for Vectra, but I searched a bit but not found much of info about specifically VL2.