Well not really sure what happened. I turned off my computer, and when it turned back on it decided that there was no drive to boot from. It happened before when I left a USB drive in on startup, but all I had in this time was a CD. Got rid of that, big surprise, still refuses to boot. I try going to the boot drive settings, and the HDD is listed as the first option to boot from. On one attempt I happened to hit f9 instead of f8 on accident and it brought up a prompt to choose a drive to boot from, I selected the HDD and it booted fine. It froze though, so I restarted and could not get it to work again. I played around with some settings, and switched to a different boot menu (that runs a memory diagnostic and other tests on startup) and now cannot get into the BIOS settings, even to turn the in depth menu off. Is there anyway I can reset the BIOS settings or fix this somehow?
[b]tl;dr:[/b] BIOS does not boot from HDD, cannot access BIOS settings. What do?
Computer is 4 year old Gateway, 8GB DDR2 ram, NVIDIA Stripe ~500GB HDD. Let me know what information you need if it'll help. Thanks.
Also, it is older so it's a little slow, maybe it's just on its last legs? It's had its share of viruses and issues.
Whilst it's booting try hitting all the possible function keys. F12 F10 F8 F2 F9
[QUOTE=12voltsdc;35388921]Whilst it's booting try hitting all the possible function keys. F12 F10 F8 F2 F9[/QUOTE]
I will, but normally it's F8 for BIOS settings and F9 opens the boot prompt, and now neither of the keys do anything at any point in the boot sequence. I've tried both pressing them continuously, and waiting for the right moment, it doesn't seem to make a difference.
the only thing I can think of is updating your BIOS, Getting the model and putting it on a floppy. Other wise I have no idea what else to do, I have never seen this problem before.
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