I have a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop that I bought just under three months ago (6 days left on the 90 day warranty)
Its ran fine and perfect, never had any problems until this morning. I sometimes leave my computer running and put the top down, to put it into sleep mode. Opened the top this morning and used the computer and all of a sudden out of the blue it shut off on me. The battery was on low power, since the orange light was on, so I thought that was it... wishful thinking.
Turned it on and it goes
Config int [Fail]
Media device [Fail]
No boot device detected
Now I'm no expert at this stuff, but when I think media device, I think the hard drive, so it must be hard drive failure right? I took the hard drive out and booted up the computer, and same error as above, it must be the motherboard. Some sites are telling me its a motherboard dying, some are saying that its "off" and failing to boot up the HD.
I placed the HD into another computer and its giving me an error saying no windows operating system found.
System Setup (F2) shows the fixed HDD is not detected, while BIOS says that the boot device is UEFI which is the standard bootup device.
I really don't want to confirm to myself its a random computer death, I want a second opinion. I'll say this is the first time I've had a computer just die on me, with no warning. I've had motherboard and harddrive failures in the past, there were signs. I've had viruses, there were signs.
There was not a single sign for this to happen. Which makes me think there is something else going on... I'm wondering if my Gateway (comp I'm using now) just wont recongnize the harddrive (eight year old technology vs. a WD Blue harddrive)
Edit:
So I changed the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy and its now coming up with a new error, I have attached the error.
Realtek PCIe PE Family Controller Series v1.25
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
Its starting to seem more like the motherboard... BIOS does recognize my HDD. System setup does not.
I'll also mentioned I did put my HD from the Gateway into the Dell, the same media device error pops up as well...
Its ran fine and perfect, never had any problems until this morning. I sometimes leave my computer running and put the top down, to put it into sleep mode. Opened the top this morning and used the computer and all of a sudden out of the blue it shut off on me. The battery was on low power, since the orange light was on, so I thought that was it... wishful thinking.
Turned it on and it goes
Config int [Fail]
Media device [Fail]
No boot device detected
Now I'm no expert at this stuff, but when I think media device, I think the hard drive, so it must be hard drive failure right? I took the hard drive out and booted up the computer, and same error as above, it must be the motherboard. Some sites are telling me its a motherboard dying, some are saying that its "off" and failing to boot up the HD.
I placed the HD into another computer and its giving me an error saying no windows operating system found.
System Setup (F2) shows the fixed HDD is not detected, while BIOS says that the boot device is UEFI which is the standard bootup device.
I really don't want to confirm to myself its a random computer death, I want a second opinion. I'll say this is the first time I've had a computer just die on me, with no warning. I've had motherboard and harddrive failures in the past, there were signs. I've had viruses, there were signs.
There was not a single sign for this to happen. Which makes me think there is something else going on... I'm wondering if my Gateway (comp I'm using now) just wont recongnize the harddrive (eight year old technology vs. a WD Blue harddrive)
Edit:
So I changed the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy and its now coming up with a new error, I have attached the error.
Realtek PCIe PE Family Controller Series v1.25
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
Its starting to seem more like the motherboard... BIOS does recognize my HDD. System setup does not.
I'll also mentioned I did put my HD from the Gateway into the Dell, the same media device error pops up as well...
