Bootmgr missing/unable to load bios?

Airclay

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Dec 30, 2013
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I've read lots of the post pertaining to this problem but none to seem to fit my problem or help.

I put this build together less than three days ago (amd a10/asus a85xm-a/Vulcan 8g 1600)

The last couple days I've been using win7 32bit and got everything set up. Today I used unetbootin to create USB live disk for Mint 16 64bit (never used Linux but I tried it first on virtualbox (32bit version) and liked it fine). I restarted my computer w the USB inserted and got the BOOTMGR missing error (I actually missed my chance to get to bios). I pressed ctrl+alt+delete to restart, hit f2 to reach the bios and my screen went blank.

I've tried about 5/6 times w the same issue.

Do I need to unplug my hdd and boot up? I'd really rather not have to physically take it back apart, I just got it together :'(