When i start up my pc it begins to start up normally for a second then the screen blinks off-go`s to black and says-Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key- what does this mean.pc will not start up
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Do you have an old computer with a floppy disk drive? If so, push the eject button on the floppy drive to see if you accidently left a floppy disk in it. That will prevent proper booting if you left a floppy in there. If this is not the case, contact me and I will ask you some questions, and will try to diagnose the problem. But I need more information.
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Sounds to me like you have no boot drive hooked up. It could be that one of the cables to your hard drive jiggled loose. Most PCs automatically look for the first partition on the Master rive of the Primary IDE channel, so I doubt that your BIOS is messed up, though it is worth double-checking to see if the motherboard still sees the drive AND has it in the boot order. One other possibility is that the hard drive itself is screwed up. Usually it's a bad boot block and I've fixed that by booting from the WinXP CD, opening up a repair console, and running FIXMBR (or FIXBOOT if I am dual-booting).
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Have you moved the computer recently? Or do you often bump up against it or had any recent contact with it other than simply pushing the power button? If so, then I would say jerv has hit the nail on the head and your hard drive cable is loose. Less than two years old could mean you have either an PATA (80-pin connector) or a SATA (7-pin connector?) Hard drive. If you have no warranty remaining on the computer, I would just open up the case, touch the power supply (the box that your power cable plugs into-touching it will dissipate any static), and then simply make sure your cable from the motherboard to your hard drive is firmly connected at all points. If you still have an active warranty, however, you should take the computer where you purchased it, and have them run their diagnostics on it and fix it.
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