Re: 'select proper boot device' .... Strange recent behavior with hybernation and now startup!
- From: "Smoker~" <bill_gates@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:43:21 -0500
"ndy" <getlost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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maybe 3-4 weeks back, one time starting up from hibernation mode I got a---
Dos screen, with the message:
"Reboot and Select proper boot device
Insert boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key"
the screen just sits there, with an active cursor waiting, press any
keys and it just repeats the message, F8, doesn't do a thing. so, I turn
it off and most times, in the beginning, it would then start the
hibernation load and up and running.
after a while I figured it may have had something to do with the fact
that I sometimes turn off my DSL modem, Verizon setup, after shutdown
when I figure I'm not going online for a day or so and that changed the
configuration from when it hibernated and it seemed at first that
anecdotally, by turning the modem back on this may have made a
difference. eventually it really didn't seem to be the trick and so I
just kept the modem on and still this screen increasingly pops up after
the computer has been hibernating overnight or some length of time, not
if I turn it off and then back on a short time later.
the next thing I decided to test was if maybe somehow it was hibernation
so I stopped using that but it seems now to be doing it when I perform a
system shutoff as well, whether I leave the modem on or not, or turn it
off before I shut down.
I haven't installed anything new for some time except for the latest MS
updates, Jan, and Feb, although I did install Sun Java 1.5 a few weeks
back around the time this thing really became a problem, but the problem
may have been prior to this. I'm just guessing but for the hell of it I
uninstalled it tonight but I dare not really test this as the solution
until I hopefully get some feedback and suggestions.
I have run extensive Spyware and full system virus scans and all is
reported clean.
the worst thing is it seems to be slowly getting worse as it is becoming
harder and harder to get past this screen once I shut down my machine.
at first I only had to shut it off and reboot and most times it would
kick into either hibernation loading or just starting if a shutdown and
sometimes maybe a 2nd reboot. but lately it is taking more and more on
and offs, like tonight, I had to turn it off and on like 6 times and as
you can imagine, this is getting a little scary that it might never get
come back and I think I better keep it on for the time being until I get
to the bottom of this.
anybody have any ideas????
Don't use the hibernation at all if you have problems with it and until this
is fixed it will only complicate the matter.
Go into your BIOS and check all the settings especially your boot sequence
where the order should be Floppy first, then CD ROM/Optical, then Hard
Drive.
Unplug your DSL modem from the power, pull all the cords out of it and wait
awhile. Do this with your machine turned off. Verizon calls this recycling
the modem. Actually it might be a goof idea to reboot with your modem
disconnected from the computer, then shut it down and plug everything in and
start up. I really forget but call VZ and they will tell you.
If you have a problem starting up what happens when you start in Safe Mode?
What OS are you using?
Try it as the solution. You're talking about your uninstall of Sun Java? Got
to get you stable before you install that again, don't you think?
.
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