Tried to install new HDD laptop beeped and now ...

[littlebobby3]

so long story short, found a HDD of mine i used in the past just a regular SATA 80GB HDD for a laptop. Now, i decided i would just plug this into my laptop no problem. well the laptop beeped beeped and beeped about 4 times then i just turned the computer off. took it out was like ok nevermind then! well now my Nvidia GPU is GONE yes GONE not in device manager the drivers dont detect it its not in the BIOS nothing period. i cant even tell you what GPU i have in this laptop. its is GONE.

now i have attempted system restore, safe mode, checking the bios ... windows repair EVERYTHING. and it all seems to end in ERRORS. even did a sfc/scannow in cmd said everything was 100% A-OK.

seeing as i do play games id really love some help here. and yes ... its a DELL <(

please keep the "thats what you get for getting a dell BLAH BLAH" flames to a min please it was a gift and a gift from a very technically illiterate person at that.