i had a noisy gpu fan ( fan on right side) i read that the oil in the fan must have leaked out somehow so i opened it up and put a drop of hair clipper oil in there. it fixed the problem for about 2 months. it started again today so i opened it up to do the oil trick again but RAN into a STRIPPED screw and couldnt get the fan out. after reassembling the laptop i get this on bootup.

" reboot and select PROPER boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

so its not detecting the hard drive right? i tried reseating the hard drive and opening the laptop back up to check and make sure everything was plugged in correctly. same problem

no recovery dvd's came with the laptop. i had to make my own when i first got it. i couldnt boot up to do any recover or repair with those either.

all i could do was hit f2 and get into the bios. there it looked like it only recognized one thing under the boot MENU. i cant remember what it exactly was but it was something like sata dvdram?? i wasnt sure if it was the hard drive or dvd drive.

now i cant even seem to get into the bios, in frustration i had started enabling and disabling things in the bios, i cant remember the last two things i enabled before my problem getting into the bios started. but now when i start up it just stays blank for a long time with a dash at the top left of the screen. after a while it says something about "for atheros pcie ethernet controller" below that it says "client mac addr" followed by numbers and letters. after a while of that it says no dhcp or proxdhcp offers were received, exiting intel pxe rom.

i hope that tells you what option i enabled in the bios. after that it goes back to "reboot and select proper boot device" i can't even get into the bios now. sigh...very frustrated with this and have no money for a repair shop. I think you should try resetting the bios, and check what happensQuote from: ShotAlive on December 16, 2011, 07:45:15 AM

I think you should try resetting the bios, and check what happens