Message: Reboot And Select Proper Boot Device


I just installed a new antec 80mm blue ledfan and hooked up another fan that was aleady in there, but had never been hooked up for some reason. I thought everything was going fine, until i started up the computer and i got the message: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". Im not sure what is wrong, because i did not change anything else in the computer.

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Error - Reboot And Select Proper Boot Device

I had a few problems getting pc to run (namely, i somehow lost the jumper for the bios pins on the motherboard. Because i had no jumper, it kept running in recovery mode. Took me a while to figure out, too). I don't know if it matters, but i popped out the battery as some instructions stated. I waited ten minutes and then placed the battery back, positive side up, which is what i remembered it being before i removed it. I only did that because i was at a loss at what else could be done to get the system running. Now, the system boots up fine and recognizes all devices, except. The problem is that after the post, an error pops up. "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

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Now when i load my laptop up it comes up in a dos kind of environment and displays the following:

"Intel undi, pxe-2. 0 (build 082)
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Reboot and select proper boot device
Or insert media in selected boot device and press a key"

Again i have been in then bios settings and changed the priority to load the cd 1st, i also presume by device they are referring to my cd drive. I tried to put fdisk on and format but i now think i may of put them onto cd wrong. Anybody heard of how to get out of this then tell me, i am on a desktop at the minute and yes i can put files onto cd if needed but only program i have managed to load so far from reboot via cd is killdisk.


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