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Okay, I've got some problems here. A few days ago, my bootlegged Windows XP started to punk out on me. Whenever I would type in my password and try to logon, I would get on, but instantly after getting on, before even the task bar came up, it would automatically log out again. I had no idea what was going on, so I just left it alone for a while. I had a Western Digital 160GB 7200R drive that was laying around my room that I had been meaning to install as my primary drive for a while, so I figured that I would just put that in and put a new copy of XP onto it, and then transfer stuff from my old drive over to it.
Yesterday I got a new video card, an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, so after I took out my old 9500 Pro, I decided to go ahead with the hard drive switching, since I had some time and was already in there anyways. I did it, took out my other hard drives (three), burned a copy of the XP install CD on my other computer, and then put the new drive in. I put it in, and set the jumpers to a master drive with no slaves (which is apparently not having the jumper in at all). I hooked everything up, held my breath, and turned it on... Hard drive started spinning, everything seemed to go on, but the monitor was still black, and the little light on it still yellow/orange. Then I hear these horrible loud system beeps that area about five seconds long with three secon intervals. I have no idea what the problem is here, and I need to have my computer working before I get off of break and back into school. I tried putting the old primary hard drive in by itself, but the same thing kept happening.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

The original problem is a spyware issue. You have the Blazefind malware. I had a client's system infected by this one a few weeks ago and posted the fix here: http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=37825


The second issue is a hardware problem. All motherboards use a beep code if it runs across an error that prevents it from POSTing. You more than likely accidently loosened something when you were working in the computer. You can check the manual for your motherboard, or go to the manufacturer's website to find out what the the specific beep code you're getting means.

Even before doing that I would re-seat the video card and memory. 99% of all beep code errors are due to either RAM or video card detection problems. Pull the RAM and re-install it. If you have more than one stick of memory, pull all but one. Check to make sure the video card is fully seated. Also since you just tried a new video card I'd suggest you install the old one to make sure the new one is not defective.

Hope this helps...