Dell Laptop won't boot up

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Lennonlee, May 5, 2013.

  1. Lennonlee

    Lennonlee Private E-2

    I try to turn on my laptop, it will show the Dell logo page and have press f2 for setup and f12 for boot. But then it goes to a black page that says:
    Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 083)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
    This Product is covered by.... then list all these patents then
    Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
    Series v1.24 (10/07/10)
    Then there is the curser that just blinks, nothing I press does anything, I tried to boot it but they just say "select proper boot device or insert boot media and press a key. What should I do? I tried F8 and it does nothing, now when I try it beeps.
     
    Lennonlee, May 5, 2013
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  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    PXE indicates it is trying to boot from a networked device.
    If you went into the BIOS and set the hd as the first boot device and it isn't booting from that, then there is a problem with your hard drive so it goes down the list of bootable devices.
    The hd could have died or the mbr is corrupt.
     
    plodr, May 5, 2013
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