reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device.

shirtsleeve · June 7th, 2007, 03:11 PM

hi, i recently posted on my hard drive.. and thanks for your help, i found out i needed to RMA it, but for now im running a 40 gb spare hard drive. it's been working for a couple weeks, no problems, and today i was playing cs:s, and all of the sudden it freezes and i hear the annoying repeating sounds of what was going on as it froze.. very annoying. anyways, i dont know why it froze.. but i tried to alt tab, tried to ctrl alt delete, but it wouldnt budge, so i just restarted. come to find out, when i try coming back in, i get the "reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device." .. problem. i really dont know what to do.. i inserted vista and it makes it seem like i never installed vista, because i cant use the repair my computer option, and i didnt want to go any further on the install process. it detects my hard drive, and my dvd drive.. and the boot sequences have never been a problem, and the fact i had a cd in has never been a problem either, and of course i have tried it without a cd in. also, the first time it started doing it, it wasnt recognizing my hard drive. now that i just turned it off for a while, it recognizes it.. but i stil get the error. please help

shirtsleeve · June 7th, 2007, 08:44 PM

well, i used a spare dell hard drive, and it works. but, when i replugged the 40 gb back in using the "slave" side i guess its called (the middle ribbon plug), because the first one has some sort of little cut, very tiny, but i think it might make a difference. plugged in as the slave, its not recognized at all, plugged in as the master its recognized, but sticks on a black screen with a flashing _ at the top, THEN goes to the error. both ways goes to the error. when i get home from cross country im going to use a different .. ribbon cable, i guess its called, and see if that works. any help would be nice

shirtsleeve · June 7th, 2007, 11:20 PM

well.. its not the cable, and im running my old dell now, so i can play until my RMA gets back from newegg. i guess the 40gb drive just.. died. any help would still be nice

chhean · March 5th, 2008, 12:38 AM

I have had a problem with my computer . It always reboots after 15 or 20 minutes . Moreover , it show the message "Reboot and Select Proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device", after rebooting 3 or 4 times. I think this probem is caused Hardware devices or mainboard . if you have seen and fixed this problem, Please contact me .
Email : ly.chhean.kh@gmail.com

Thank you !

abhinav.tripathi · October 17th, 2008, 04:37 PM

hey..i often get dis error message, but if i change the cable through which i connect my SATA hardisk to the motherboard, it picks up fine and runs excellent,,,

but when it says reboot and select...blah blah blah,...it doesnt even shows da SATA HDD in the setup.(I go in setup by pressing delete at the start f the boot)

1 more thing , i often hear a vey annoying sound from the hardisk, as if its trying to boot but cant...
mind u , i have changed the HDD once due to the same prob..
it l b wreckless if i have to change it again

help me..please..

any info ,

please mail me at abhinav.tripathi84@gmail.com

thnx a ton!!!!