Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected

Hi,

I am on the verge of completing my first custom computer build...but i seem to be having the stated above ^ problem with my computer: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected......

Im trying to install win xp through my dvd drive but there error keeps coming up. I have a sata hard drive, an ide dvd/cd burner/reader. (lite-on). (I though I bought a sata dvd drive but when it came in it turned out to be ide, my fault, however i dont think that should effect anything). Anyways my dvd burner/reader has the black ide port/cable hooked into it and my motherboard has the blue one (so I dont think i made the common mistake) however, i still get the error. Please help me make my first computer build successful!!! OH btw I checked the bios it looks like it recognizes my hard drive and my dvd burner but still...PLEASEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPp

check the boot order in the BIOS, make sure the dvd is in the order, preferably before the hard drive.

Make sure your sata drives are set as IDE and not raid

In the BIOS, maybe under advanced, it will somehow state your drives(HDD, DVD, etc.) and you want them to say ide or sata...no where do you want it to say RAID...just go through the bios options and you'll see it, what board do you have? and have you moved the dvd drive sata to another connector to make sure it's not the sata controller?

Does it detect the CD in the DVD drive and does the system ask you to press a key to boot from the CD? If not, then it's possible the DVD drive is not working properly.

To boot from the DVD, you need a working DVD drive and a bootable CD or DVD disk. AFIK, the Asus support CD isn't bootable. If you insert a known to work bootable CD or DVD in the drive and the system is configured to boot from the DBD drive before the hard disk and it still doesn't try to boot from the DVD drive, then it's most likely defective. Does it ever asks you to press a key to boot from the CD or DVD?

problems installing vista using.

i can enter the BIOS no problems, and all the hardware is set up right.

I put a DVDRW into IDE1 and set this to boot first, my hardrive is connected to SATA1 set to second boot.

When I try to install windows after the dvd start reading I get this error.


"Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key"


However I did put my motherboard CD in and lets it boot from cd and it wants me to make a boot disk, so the cd rom is ok
However I do not have a floppy drive.

Whould you know what this is ?
I have never seen this problem before,


Please help!
---- Specs ------
Q6600 2.4ghz
Asus P5Q
Geforce 8800gts Fatal1ty
4 gig OZC reaper ram PC2 8500
Sata HDD 320 gig
Litone DVDRW/cdrw(IDE)
600W PSU

just now i bought my new pc..
same spec with u guys..
bt im using amd mobo...
my hd is sata
n my dvd rom is ide...
i too think..
the ide rom is not compitable with the new mobo..
maybe i wanna try using my sata dvd..n hopefully it can be workable =.=
i just getting tired 4 whole night trying to solve this but seem not only me face the same prob..
i hope anybody who succeed in this prob giving his xplaination how u do it ^^
really appreciate if anyone can help me too =.=

@@@@@@@@@@@@ I have a same problem,I have 2 dvd drives and i take out one And u go in bios and set ur hard drive sata to raid And save restart

I am having the same issue. This is a computer that I build a year ago (ASUS P5E...)
drives are SATA RAID0, DVD drive is IDE

I successfully installed Vista on this machine last year, and then Windows 7 yesterday, but had to reinstall.
After Formatting my drives, only NOW do I get this problem. It's NOT hardware related, because it all worked just fine yesterday. Only it happens with every CD EXECECPT the copy of Win7 I burned yesterday.

I'm having install issues with that copy, so I'm trying a new disk, or my old Vista disks.
NOTHING.

In summary, Vista DVD's generate this issue, new burn of Win7 generates this issue. yesterday's burn of Win 7 works fine.

I suspect a boot sector virus - or a problem with the RAID controllers after reformatting the RAID disk.

Either way, this is F*ed up.
Please god someone help!

Am having same problem with a p6t se, bios recognizes hhd abd cd-rom, set priority to boot 1st cd-rom, 2nd hhd. But when I try to boot from cd-rom with windows 7 or windows xp (both oems) neither will boot. Have built multiple pcs using msi and gigabyte mbs, this is my first asus and am not impressed thus far. Please help. Decoy77

I just recently began seeing this statement about rebooting and selecting the proper boot device and selecting any key. I updated my BIOS and when I rebooted, I would get this msg. In my BIOS settings under boot device priority, BIOS detected my HDD but a generic ATAPI CDROM and not my memorex dvd drive. I decided after trying numerous times trying to get BIOS to detect my dvd rom to check my master/slave settings for my drives. Don't know why but I was desperate for a solution so I'd give it a shot. I made my HDD master and dvd slave. Saved the settings, rebooted, and after POST, the screen showed my HDD then it booted to windows. That seemed to have solved my problem for whatever reason. Hope this helps as I haven't seen any other solution. Worked for me though.

Specs:
Intel i5 750
Asus P7P55D Pro
xfx hd5770 1gb ddr5
4gb gskill ripjaws
Seagate Barracuda 500gb HDD
memorex dvd rom

After replacing my IDE CD/DVD writer with a SATA version, all my problems went away!

Hi, i had the exactly same problem yesterday and what was wrong was that my hard drive was unplugged after i had vacuum it ^^ i did by accident unplug the cable from the motherboard and the hard drive. after that everything works fine now when i have replug it. check that and after that restart computer, if it doesn't work try to restart your pc and press F9 (Boot menu) There you are gonna see your cd-players and then chose the one the cd is in. And if that doesn't work then i don't have a clue Good Luck

it's not the boot order or anything like that. that's such an amateur guess. do you really think the person just randomly changed their boot order and then rebooted and couldn't figure out what was going on? give me a break. usually what causes this is the optical mouse. unplug it and get a new driver or a new mouse.

I have these all the time.

I do my bios updates and keep up with the updates. They don't happen as much anymore tho.

However besides that. I just got the Black Screen of Death 2 hours ago and read half the forum until I figured out what caused it.

This is what I did:
1) I disconnected my External Hard Drive
>>>Test: Nope not this

2) disabled usb boot up in BIOS
>>> Test: nope

3) Made sure I had CD then Hard Drive as boot sequence
>>>Test: nope

4) Double checked if I was using the right Hard Drive (I have 2 internal HDs)
>>>Test: nope

5) And finally just poped in the boot disk to try see if it could repair itself.
>>>Test: Success
Reason: I had done a windows update and one of the updates was preventing it from booting. DAMN YOU FAULTY UPDATES !!!!!! >< .,l,.

well I'm just glad i didn't have to restart my computer again. ^^

I am using a similar machine as you, and this "Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key" error keeps haunting me. It already happen for like five times in a few months. It always happen like this: the machine suddenly reboot itself when I'm using it, and the error came out. I have no idea what caused this error to happen. Sadly, I have to do recovery, and re-install programs and stuff each time this error occur. Worst, I had to backed up all my data to Local Disk D daily. Doing all this stuff really tire me out. Any solutions? Thank you.

EDIT: You know what dramatic? This error occur again deliberately after I sent above message. Unbelievable. I'm editing this post in safe mode.

try reseting the bios on the back of the cd or dvd drive there is a blue or black pin set it to master, try useing the first cable of the top to the disk drive then the secound to the top ,to the harddrive all on one cable. and put in another cd os just to test. and if that does not work try another cd or dvd drive that you may have around.

As only a footnote.. just so that you're aware.

- Many generic & even name brand CD/DVD drive makers will have a CD ROM bios update for the CD/DVD drive itself.
This can be due to the "shorter" boot cycle time, a newer release system board will have - to make a device type discovery.
These can be updated by running an EXE file update from the OEM Drive manufacturer.
Also many lame-o DRM schemes play with these CD/DVD internal bios data for quasi disk copy protection schemes. (LAME People)

- Its always a good idea to use/flash the latest Bios for your mainboard from its OEM also.
Timings are critical at boot and usually some minor timing adjustments can make a big differance in system behaviors at boot.
If you check for the new bios file and find one, the version errata sheet should give you the reason for the rom bios change.
You may confirm "whether or not" a particular Bios update applies to your setup or environment.
I'd flash it anyway though as some minor fix for an issue may be silently included and just overlooked and not listed on the version change.
I find this happens ALL TOO OFTEN by OEM's. I think it mainly gets lost by someone in the language translation from Chinese to English.
That, or the simple mistake is embarrassing enough to make it a serious problem if acknowledged publicly.. An Eastern culture thing.

- It never hurts, to always triple check connections and port positions.

- Many Bios when set to boot from a CD/DVD first, will post a "press key message". This is normal for the set order.
Ignore it and it will boot through to the next device until it finds one to boot from. If not - you will usually be presented a choice to assign one.

- At some point these devices become obsolete and aren't supported. Get a newer one. You'll be glad you did.

Just my 2 cents!

I am having the same problem here...

I thought of upgrading my computer, thus repalced with a ASUS new motherboard and a processor and a RAM. And it was not loading windows since it was not matching with the new hardware.

So I removed my hard disk and used a IDE to USB converter and connected to my laptop and formated the hard disk and connected back to the desktop. And it showed an error message: Bootmng missing.

Then I removed my IDE cd rom and connected to laptop using the converter, and checked with a cd and found it was not reading.

Then again I connected it back to my desktop and this time it shows error message: "Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

I tried with the Jumpers and it was fine. And checked the bios booting order and it was in the order. No change same error message kept on comming.

Then I saw your comment and repalced my power supply to 24pin one since i was using a 20pin one. But still I received the same error message: "Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

Then I replaced my IDE CD Rom to a New Sata CD Rom and still I am getting the same error message: "Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"

The only thing that is not changed is the old 80GB hard disk.

Please help me on this....

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

Been having this problem for about a week now. I had resorted to choosing the proper drive by pressing F8 and that would get me booted but didn't solve the problem.

Followed this thread and many others that suggested that I change the boot order and make sure that the proper HDD was the 1st boot device. To my utter surprise and dismay the bios did not even detect my hitachi hdd in the boot order...IT WAS NOT F***ING IN THE LIST!!! I called Asus support and their only help was to tell me to call back tomorrow when maybe someone else with more experience would be at work...sigh

So here is what I did that fixed the issue:

1) Updated bios to latest version. (refer to manufacturer's website for instructions)
2) Changed setting in bios under Main Storage Config from IDE to AHCI
3) Still in bios, went to Boot/Hard Disk Drives where I found the main HDD with my operating system and moved it to disk 1.
4) Still in bios, went to Disk Boot order and my HDD then showed in the list of devices. Now I was able to put the hdd in slot 1 of the boot order.
5) Hit F10 to save and exit bios.

6) SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!

Hope this helps anyone that is having this issue as I have fewer hairs in my head now than I did last week.