I have had this same on message on a few occasions, not many, but enough to be a nuisance and now worrying me .... " Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot
media in selected boot device" Previously I have 'fixed' this by pressing F8 and starting in Safe Mode then restarting the system. However, the last time this happened I took the tower to my computer lady, who plugged in, switched on and all was fine !! It happened again this morning and I couldn't even get the F8 key to get any response, not the usual choice Safe Mode etc; but I did get a blue pane showing the A (floppy) and D (CD) options. Finally I decided to trick the machine into thinking it had been taken to my computer lady again by unplugging everything then re-plugging .... and voila ! all started as normal. This has happened for the last 2 days (previously there has been a considerable time lapse between this occurring) and it's because it has now done it on two consecutive days that I'm beginning to worry.
I have checked the Event Viewer for possible information, by going to start/Run, typing eventvwr and then clicking the Application menu item and looking for any X. I found a couple of X's and clicked on for further information ..... strangely these X's appeared the night previous in each case, looking at the time, on close-down... I then looked at the report which read as follows on each
the other message is exactly the same except the USB Driver is e4ldr
I don't know if this has anything to do with the Reboot message or what I need to do if it is, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to explain ... many, many thanks for any input.
Just one question on closedown, my internet connection (by ADSL modem) starts automatically when Windows opens ... should I let this close automatically with Turn Off OR should I disconnection manually before Turn Off ? Again, many thanks.
Sorry for quoting the whole of your original question but thought it may be worth while to do so.
Also for not reading the whole of this thread, so apologies if this has already been mentioned earlier.
Firstly you say it's a tower unit (no problem with that) which I am assuming has USB sockets on the front and rear.
It is quite a common occurance for the rear USB sockets to be 2.x but for the front USB sockets to be 1.x.
So when you took it to your friends, did you also take any device that was plugged into any of the front USB sockets?
If this is the case, then when you get a USB external hub, plug it into one of the sockets on the rear of the PC to maintain your 2.x status on the hub.
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Try removing any items that are plugged into the front sockets first (if there are any)