oh... well poo

squiggley1 · 10-20-2011, 01:03,

So today I got home from school around the usual 4:20 PM, I turned on my PC and immediatly after doing so I get a black screen with white text saying something around the lines of "Reboot and select proper boot device" I've never heard of this but after spending about 30 minutes looking for a solution I found out that it has multiple meanings. One of those meanings pretty much means your power cell is inadiquate, I'm pretty sure it's that but I'm still not sure. I'm probably going to be very inactive due to this but I'm hoping I'll get back on soon. If you have ANY ideas on what I could do to fix my PC please tell me. At the moment I'm typing this on my dad's 9 year old XP computer that can run minecraft at a top speed of 10 frames per second.

Cell · 10-20-2011, 01:06,

Hmm, Xp.
When booting your computer do you get a screen that says windows, and in the bottom says something like "Press f12 for boot menu"?
If you do, do so, then choose your main hard drive from the list.
This happens to me everytime I reboot my computer, which is Vista, and I have to manually select my hard drive for it to boot. This may or may not be whats happening to you.

squiggley1 · 10-20-2011, 01:11,

nope :/ nothing about f12

Cell · (This post was last modified: 10-20-2011, 01:14 by Cell.)

Herm. Let me see one second.

Try a few F keys, I just read tht f8 might do it, but i'm not sure.

squiggley1 · 10-20-2011, 01:16,

tried em' all Poker face

none helped, I think I either need to do something with my hard drive or my power cell (which I was actually already planning on upgrading)

asdfasdflkjty911 · 10-20-2011, 02:30,

Keep in mind that a new hard drive will be completely empty, you have to get special wires or software to transfer old info to the new one, although a lot of computers can just have multiple hard drives. (I dont know which you meant you were upgrading and I dont know how it works on PC, I only use PC's at school)

~~pavja2~~ · (This post was last modified: 10-20-2011, 02:47 by pavja2.)

Your hard drive is broken. Your power supply has nothing to do with it other than that it isn't powering your hard drive properly. See if you can boot into a live Linux usb (I like DSL or Backtrack for my Linux purposes, puppy is good too). If you cannot access the BIOS you are probably screwed but you should see something at startup (ex. Company logo) hit F2 repeatedly until you open the BIOS, change the boot order to boot from USB, see if Linux works, use that to recover files and try to fix stuff.

squiggley1 · 10-20-2011, 03:45,

turns out that the cable attached from my power cell to my hard drive actually snapped, ever since we put in the new graphics card the cable was strained (it just wasn't long enough) we're gonna go see if we can find one tomorrow, thankyou for teh halp guyz.

geckosquid · 10-20-2011, 05:14,

That would do it XD

squiggley1 · 10-21-2011, 00:06,

annnnnd... FIXED