If Your Hard Disk Does Not Work - HP Vectra Vli 8SF Supplementary Manual

If the Hard Disk Activity
Light Does Not Work
NOTE
1 Troubleshooting Your PC
More Troubleshooting for Drives

If your Hard Disk Does Not Work

If you receive a S.M.A.R.T. alert, this indicates that your hard disk
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drive is defective. Carry out an immediate data backup, then contact
HP Support at
www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport
replacement hard disk drive.
Check that the disk power and data cables are correctly connected
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(refer to Drive Connectors, on page 46).
Check that the hard disk drive has been
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Hardware Protection
HP Setup program, accessed by pressing
an option in the Setup program that lets you disable or enable boot
on hard disk drive (refer to the
( menu group) in the Setup program).
Security
Check that the hard disk drive has been detected (refer to the
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submenu (
Devices
accessed by pressing
Check that the on-board Bus IDE is enabled if you are using the
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integrated IDE controller (refer to the
( menu group) in the Setup program, accessed by pressing
Advanced
F2 at startup).
If the hard disk activity light does not flicker when the PC is accessing
the hard disk drive:
Check that the control panel connector is firmly attached to the
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system board.
Check that the disk power and data cables are correctly connected.
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If you are using a hard disk drive with a controller board (a SCSI hard
disk, for example), the activity light does not flicker when the PC is
accessing the hard disk drive.
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submenu (
Security
Boot Devices Security
menu group) in the Setup program,
Advanced
F2 at startup).
IDE Devices
to ask for a
(refer to the
unlocked
menu group) in the
at startup). There is also
F2
submenu
submenu
IDE