Lee Lord wrote:

> Thanks for the information. I removed the HDD and replaced it with a
> new one
> from Dell and sent the old one back. I have a laptop computer by the
> way.
> Yes I've done the diagnostics and it tells me nothing. I'm still
> having the
> problem. Not every time I boot up but frequently. It gets to the
> DELL screen for about 30 seconds then I get tht message in a DOS
> window that it can't find my optical drive or my primary drive along
> with two beeps.

Then it is probably your motherboard. Call Dell and have them replace
it.

Malke
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