Help my PC is dead!

[Mattw]

Anyone know if this is a simple fix, my PC won't boot up, it keeps coming up with the following message:

Searching for Boot Record from Floppy..Not Found
Searching for Boot Record from CDROM..Not Found
Searching for Boot Record from BBS-0..ok

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.12a(011210)

Client MAC ADDR: XX XX XX XX XX XX GUID: EDA........................

PXE-E53: No boot filename received

Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found

Boot Failure
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device.



Any help advice gratefully received........oh and please remember I am completely IT illiterate!

Thanks

Matt

[David Godfrey]

if it was working fine before then its possible your hdd has died - can you hear it spininng up when you turn the pc on? for info the

"Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.12a(011210)

Client MAC ADDR: XX XX XX XX XX XX GUID: EDA........................

PXE-E53: No boot filename received

Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found

Boot Failure"
part is trying to boot from network, either down to hdd failure or the bios settings changing. what happened just before?

[Mattw]

Well if I am being honest I have no idea what an Hdd is. But I can tell you that it certainly is not make the normal sounds it makes when I boot it up i.e. increasing whirring noise interrupted by .......blip.

Was fine last night, turned it off everything ok. Today it just won't do anything.

[MrFlibbles]

Mattw said:

Well if I am being honest I have no idea what an Hdd is. But I can tell you that it certainly is not make the normal sounds it makes when I boot it up i.e. increasing whirring noise interrupted by .......blip.

Was fine last night, turned it off everything ok. Today it just won't do anything.

Hard Disk Drive.

[Mattw]

MrFlibbles said:

Mattw said:

Well if I am being honest I have no idea what an Hdd is. But I can tell you that it certainly is not make the normal sounds it makes when I boot it up i.e. increasing whirring noise interrupted by .......blip.

Was fine last night, turned it off everything ok. Today it just won't do anything.

Hard Disk Drive.

Ah right, of course should have guessed that one!!

So if that is dead I am presuming fixing the PC is not going to be cheap, quick or easy? Was going to get a new PC anyway but of course now this has happened I have not been able to pull off all my files......nuts!

Edited by Mattw on Saturday 28th April 16:07

[toni896]

Have you plugge din an Ipod or any type of MP3 player / external disc ?

I get a sinualr error if my ipod is connected at boot.

[Mattw]

Nope nothing plugged in at all. Nuts!

[David Godfrey]

Mattw said:

MrFlibbles said:

Mattw said:

Well if I am being honest I have no idea what an Hdd is. But I can tell you that it certainly is not make the normal sounds it makes when I boot it up i.e. increasing whirring noise interrupted by .......blip.

Was fine last night, turned it off everything ok. Today it just won't do anything.

Hard Disk Drive.

Ah right, of course should have guessed that one!!

So if that is dead I am presuming fixing the PC is not going to be cheap, quick or easy? Was going to get a new PC anyway but of course now this has happened I have not been able to pull off all my files......nuts!

Edited by Mattw on Saturday 28th April 16:07

sorry shold have been clearer on hdd
If you have the recovery disks then you could just get a replacement hdd from either an online supplier www.dabs.co.uk for example or even PCworld (who I only mention cause they would have one on the shelf you could get today instead of waiting till monday) Hope you have backups?

[Globulator]

Backups rule.

Such a dull subject for people until they lose all their data.
Such an interesting subject for them shortly afterwards...

Back your stuff up kids - external HDDs are selling for peanuts now.

[Zad]

Unplug from mains.
Open PC case.
Make sure a) the power and b) the data connectors are both securely attached to the hard disk drive
Also check the other end of the data cable, where it connects to the motherboard.
Fingers out
Plug back in to mains
Switch on

Can you hear the drive spin up - it should go vwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeee click brrrrrr and not click/click/click/click/...

[Gadaffi Duck]

You havent got a disk in the floppy drive, matey, have u?
But does sound like hard disk is on the blink

Edited by Gadaffi Duck on Sunday 29th April 00:10

[mcc]

If your disk is 'SCSI', then I'd concur with the failed hard drive theory. However, it might just be a dodgy boot sequence.

When your PC is booting up you should have an option to configure your BIOS settings - usually by pressing F2 or similar. In the BIOS there should be an option to set up your "Boot Sequence" of "Boot Order". Should be something along the lines of:

1. Floppy
2. CDROM
3. Network
4. Hard Disk

Check what options are available to you for number 4 - it's attempting to boot from SCSI at the moment. Do you have more options (like SATA, IDE, PATA etc)? Or is "Hard Disk" or "SCSI" your only choice?

Also, unless you know of a reason to keep number 3, you might want to get rid of it since it's only slowing down your boot process at present. (Unless your on a network of which you're not the admin! Home PC - disable it.)

[Mattw]

Thanks for all the advice guys, I have had a good play around with it but can't get it to do a thing. There is no wrrrrrrrrrr noise at all when I turn it on. Not a thing!

So if my hdd is dead does that mean all my data is gone or if I get a new hdd will I be able to retrive anything? Just trying to work out if I write it all off and get a new PC or if I can retrive any data without it costing a fortune?

[Globulator]

Mattw said:

Thanks for all the advice guys, I have had a good play around with it but can't get it to do a thing. There is no wrrrrrrrrrr noise at all when I turn it on. Not a thing!

So if my hdd is dead does that mean all my data is gone or if I get a new hdd will I be able to retrive anything? Just trying to work out if I write it all off and get a new PC or if I can retrive any data without it costing a fortune?

It could be the HDD or something else, a sure way to tell is to plug your HDD into a known working computer and see what it does.

The best way is to get someone who has built a computer to do it, as they can put it in correctly (setting CS/master/slave as required) as a 2nd drive and copy your stuff for you onto your new USB drive. Assuming the HDD is sort of OK enough for that.

Else it's specialist recovery firm time...