Re: boot device not found please insert boot media or select correct boot device
- From: "William" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:22:37 -0700
"timO'" <timothy.w.oleary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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P5WD2E- PREMIUM with two WD SATA hdd
XP pro sp2
i got this message one day as I tried to boot.
i had left the mobo Cd in the drive the previous evening, and didn't
sit by the PC after I booted.
So maybe something autoran.
Anyway I removed the Cd and attempted to reboot without success.
The next day I booted with an MS-DOS BIOS floppy I made after first
commissioning the PC.
It went through the entire process but still no boot.
The next day I used the XP System CD to run the Recovery Console, but
it finally haulted and reported that no boot disk was found.
The next day I went into BIOS during POST and saw that it looked like
there were no IDE devices detected.
I saved changes (although I hadn't made any) Exited, and the system
started up fine.
I had inspected the harnesses inside the computer while the system was
down, but everything appeared intact. I did not measure any of the
voltages off the PSU.
I am wondering if I need to follow up on this issue and consider
replacing the PSU or the c Drive
did the system log the failures and perhaps point to what caused them?
thanks
TimO:
It sounds like your boot sequence was corrupted and reset after your saved
settings.
Though I can not speak to this specific problem, I can attest to problems on
my BIOS that acted similar to yours. While I was running my mobo for the
first time, I lost all video from my GPU after about my 5th boot up in Win
XP SP2c. I even tried a new gpu with no change in the system. Out of
desperation I removed the battery for the BIOS, left the unit alone for 5
minutes and tried it again. Fortunately the video came back and I was in
business.
Later that week I went to ASUS' news group for my mobo and fount the same
problem had been reported before. (Wish I had known that before hand!)
Apparently sometimes some of the BIOS code can become corrupted and stop
functioning. Sometimes saving settings will correct the problem, sometimes
removal of the battery and forcing a clean bios does the trick. Sometimes
the BIOS has to go back to the factory for a reprogramming.
Be happy, it works. If you want to know more, I would suggest visiting news
groups that deal with your mobo. I am sure ASUS has such groups for you to
see. Their should be more on the Internet, perhaps a search on Yahoo will
give you more than you care to look at.
William
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