topic Re: Incorrect Boot Media? in PCs & Accessories

Incorrect Boot Media?

Rick1486 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:36:08 GMT

Lads/lasses - on my new A317M I occasionally get the following message upon turning on the machine (after bios/vaio screen but before windows splash screen which doesn't appear at all)

"UNABLE TO BOOT FROM BOOT MEDIA. INSERT CORRECT MEDIA AND PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"

If I press enter or any other key the message just repeats itself.

If I press CTRL-ALT-DEL the laptop reboots and then always successfully boots into Windows XP but this is really frustrating.

I have gone into BIOS and reset everything to factory default as I only noticed the problem after performing the recommended upgrades on the vaio site which included media server 4 (which I was blaming and so disabled) but this has made no difference.

Also just to add to the confusion, it doesn't happen every time I start the laptop and I can't say that I have been doing anything particular on the laptop prior to shutting it down and then restarting it.

The only thing I can say is that it does seem to happen from a cold start rather than a restart from within windows - although I could be wrong about this!!!

Please help!

Cheers
Rick

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

kee-lo_ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:39:30 GMT

Sounds to me like the hard disk is on it's way out.

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

rich912 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:56:27 GMT

Sounds to me like the hard disk is on it's way out.

I agree on that, but just to be sure, it is worth trying a system restore to a point prior to installing the upgrades (Start > All Programmes > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore). You could also try starting in `Safe Mode¿ a few times and see if you still have the problem. If everything is OK in Safe Mode this would eliminate a HDD problem.

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

seb21__ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:07:15 GMT

Start > All Programmes > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

Thank's for the translation Rich:smileywink:

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

kee-lo_ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:16:51 GMT

Yeah definately Rich

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

rich912 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:20:30 GMT

Thank's for the translation Rich

Sie sind willkommene Seb.:smileywink:

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

seb21__ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:25:46 GMT

Start > All Programmes > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

Start > Alle Programme > Zubehör > Systemprogramme > Systemwiederherstellung

:smileygrin:

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

kee-lo_ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:45:14 GMT

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

Rick1486 — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:41:51 GMT

Thanks gang, so if it is the hdd who/where do i contact?

Re: Incorrect Boot Media?

Twisted-Rizla — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:22:47 GMT

Thanks gang, so if it is the hdd who/where do i contact?

Give Sony a shout. You can get the phone numbers from Vaio-link