Boot up issue

[Sartori]

Hello

I had built a new tower here awhile back, it has an Asus P5Q deluxe motherboard, Core 2 Duo 3.0, 4 gigs of Kingston, Radeon Video card, WD Sata hard drive, window 7 64 bit.

Initially the computer powered up just fine and would restart with no problems. Then all of a sudden I got the no boot device found message on the black screen with the blinking cursor. I could do a ctrl alt delete, and the computer would reboot but same message. If I hit F8 to go into the safe mode option's screen It won't go there, instead a menu will show up asking me which boot device to select, I choose my hard drive and it boots into Windows just fine.....No other issues with the computer at all, none, runs great when its booted up.

The boot device priority in the Bios has the hard drive selected as #1. For some reason the computer keeps forgetting where to boot from....

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

[Marcus]

Hi Sartori,

a couple of things to start with. Can you check your power lead and the firmness of the plug-in point on your comp. Might be worth shutting it down and unplugging/plugging it in at the computer end a few times.

Can you also check that your hard drive is seated properly? I would remove it and reseat it just to be sure.

Then try a reboot or two and let us know what happens.

[Alignmenttech]

Hi Sartori,

a couple of things to start with. Can you check your power lead and the firmness of the plug-in point on your comp. Might be worth shutting it down and unplugging/plugging it in at the computer end a few times.

Can you also check that your hard drive is seated properly? I would remove it and reseat it just to be sure.

Then try a reboot or two and let us know what happens.

It could be that you are missing your operating program also, if your windows screen comes on and then nothing happens, you might want to re-install.

Or when restart your system, keep hitting the del key and go into bios settings. Go to boot option and check your boot settings.

[Sartori]

Hello, thanks for the replies

I take it you mean the 110 cord not the hard drive power cable? Not sure what you mean by the hard drive being seated, seated into what?

There no windows screen at all.....

I mentioned in my post about the boot settings being set to hard drive as #1, is that where you mean or is there something else to check...

[Haider]

Hello Sartori:

You mentioned "I could do a ctrl alt delete, and the computer would reboot but same message. If I hit F8 to go into the safe mode option's screen It won't go there, instead a menu will show up asking me which boot device to select, I choose my hard drive and it boots into Windows just fine.....No other issues with the computer at all, none, runs great when its booted up", are you sure Boot order (BIOS) is correct? you may also try replacing hard drive power and data cable

[Sartori]

Hello Sartori:

You mentioned "I could do a ctrl alt delete, and the computer would reboot but same message. If I hit F8 to go into the safe mode option's screen It won't go there, instead a menu will show up asking me which boot device to select, I choose my hard drive and it boots into Windows just fine.....No other issues with the computer at all, none, runs great when its booted up", are you sure Boot order (BIOS) is correct? you may also try replacing hard drive power and data cable

Okay, I'll double check it again just to make sure, I don't see how it could change...will also replace the cables and see what happens...

Thanks

[Marcus]

Hello, thanks for the replies

I take it you mean the 110 cord not the hard drive power cable?

Yes, but there's no harm in checking both.

Not sure what you mean by the hard drive being seated, seated into what?[

Just take the hard drive out and replace it firmly, but with care(!), into place.