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Computer went down asked for boot disc?
I have never had this happen, I put computer in hibernation, a few minutes later the light started flashing on the tower, I started it and a bunch of writing came up on the screen, telling me to put in my "boot disc" I had no clue what to do, so I unplugged the computer, unhooked all the wires from the tower, It was FULL of dust, so we cleaned it and hooked it back up and it is running fine now. Could the dusk have shut it down? And what do I do if this happens again "boot disc" don't know what that is.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Im guessing it gave you an error like this:
"Insert proper boot device and press any key"
OR
"Error: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media"
OR
"Invalid boot disk, insert system disk"
Did you have any USB HDD's flash drives CD-ROMs plugged into the computer? This will most likely cause this error.
On the other hand you could have a failing hard drive.
Or it overheated because of the dust and wasn't recognized by the computer waking up from hibernate.
Or it could have been a loose cable (between the hdd and computer) by cleaning you managed to get the cable to conduct properly
Time will tell which one is what, in the mean time BACK UP your data!
If it does it again, kick it, throw it out the window! you may need to get a new hardrive if this is the case.
- Anonymous5 years ago
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