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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correct bootdevice
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 |
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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correct boot device
"timO'" wrote in message ... 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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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correct boot device
"timO'" wrote in message ... 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 I wouldn't worry about it unless it keeps happening and then I would suspect a MB issue. It appears your boot order had changed somehow or the bios needed to redetect your devices. Ed |
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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correctboot device
On Jun 14, 8:05 am, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote:
"timO'" wrote in message ... 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 I wouldn't worry about it unless it keeps happening and then I would suspect a MB issue. It appears your boot order had changed somehow or the bios needed to redetect your devices. Ed Thanks for the info.Someone had suggested the boot 'sector', but not the boot 'sequence'. the system had been running perfectly for over a year so I'll wait and see what happens. I am unaware of a ASUS P5WD2E-PREMIUM user group, but this here group and the Google XP one are pretty useful. Thanks again for the feedback |
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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correctboot device
On Jun 14, 9:05 am, "timO'" wrote:
On Jun 14, 8:05 am, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote: "timO'" wrote in message ... 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 I wouldn't worry about it unless it keeps happening and then I would suspect a MB issue. It appears your boot order had changed somehow or the bios needed to redetect your devices. Ed Thanks for the info.Someone had suggested the boot 'sector', but not the boot 'sequence'. the system had been running perfectly for over a year so I'll wait and see what happens. I am unaware of a ASUS P5WD2E-PREMIUM user group, but this here group and the Google XP one are pretty useful. Thanks again for the feedback Oh Yeah..Is there a log of the failed boot sequence somewhere in the PC? When BIOS is loading, the American Megatrends logo appears, and the steps are shown on the screen as they are executed. but when I was getting that boot error, there were messages that flew by too quickly to read, then the final error page appeared and the sequence halted. the question is: how can I slow the steps down or allow me to manually step through them? |
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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correct boot device
Oh Yeah..Is there a log of the failed boot sequence somewhere in the
PC? When BIOS is loading, the American Megatrends logo appears, and the steps are shown on the screen as they are executed. but when I was getting that boot error, there were messages that flew by too quickly to read, then the final error page appeared and the sequence halted. the question is: how can I slow the steps down or allow me to manually step through them? Not if it is happening at the bios level. There should be a setting somewhere in the 'Boot' section of the bios to turn off "Full Screen Logo" or something to that effect. That will turn off the AM logo and you can see more of the details of the bios detection of hardware etc. Most folks want to speed that up......:-).... It is good to at least see that all your drives are being detected and all that. All the logo does is hide the bios post for a few seconds. Ed |
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boot device not found please insert boot media or select correctboot device
On Jun 15, 12:07 pm, "Ed Medlin" ed@ edmedlin.com wrote:
Oh Yeah..Is there a log of the failed boot sequence somewhere in the PC? When BIOS is loading, the American Megatrends logo appears, and the steps are shown on the screen as they are executed. but when I was getting that boot error, there were messages that flew by too quickly to read, then the final error page appeared and the sequence halted. the question is: how can I slow the steps down or allow me to manually step through them? Not if it is happening at the bios level. There should be a setting somewhere in the 'Boot' section of the bios to turn off "Full Screen Logo" or something to that effect. That will turn off the AM logo and you can see more of the details of the bios detection of hardware etc. Most folks want to speed that up......:-).... It is good to at least see that all your drives are being detected and all that. All the logo does is hide the bios post for a few seconds. Ed the American Megatrends Logo is not full screen, it is a the top of the page and all the info shows; only after it reaches a certain point in the process it scrolls through very fast. there is a mobo option where the ASUS splash is full screen, but I do not use that option. |
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