Boot I just replaced the power supply. The machine wants a boot disc, but I don't have one. What can I do?

After pressing F1 confirm that the master drive is listed in the boot setup program.. If the drive is not listed confirm that the electrical connection from the new power supply is correctly connected to the drive. Failing to correctly connect the hard drive during power supply replacements is most likely the problem. Also confirm the SATA connections to the drive.

Confirm that the drive gets warm and a slight vibration when power is first turned on confirming the disc drive is spinning.

Hope this helps?
These are typical screen shots that show the boot drive connected to the mother board MOBO detected during the initial boot process. Look for similar format in your machines boot setup.

You might want to try a boot disk if you have one if not you can get one online at

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/66822-63-free-windows-boot-disc-emachine-laptop

Try taking out the battery not the CMOS battery power cord remove from input of laptop press the power button to discharge. Let sit for about 15 minutes. When that is complete replace the battery and place the power supply unit and power laptop back on this may do the trick. Now if that does not get it to boot then try the recovery disc option when inserting the restore disc in. Or if Windows disc do a repair. It will assist you will the boot fix. Let the software do its thing.
If that does not assist you then you may need to have the notebook serviced to see what the problem is. It can mean a board matter or if the machine does turn on and you hear fans going or a fan it may be the lamp in the screen has gone out. So many variables involved here that it would be wise to have it checked out by a professional before messing anymore with this Notebook.
John

Unplug all of your RAM, expansion cards and IDE/SATA devices. Leave only the processor and the CPU/heatsink plugged in, now try turning it on. If it boots, you should get a ram error, which is normal. If it doesn't boot, either the board, processor, or power supply is bad. Next, reinstall the RAM and start it up again. If it boots again, keep adding parts until you find the one that is causing the problem.

Hope this helps.

overheating would be my first guess my next guess would be a bad power supply but unfortunately there are many possibilities:( you could try booting the machine from a disc and this at least would tell you whether the operating system was corrupted or the hardware because if you boot from a disc and it still shuts itself off then it is a hardware issue. if you want more information about how to boot from a disc just ask:)

sounds like your pc is trying to boot from a disc drive without an operating system installed on it. I sometimes get this with my toshiba 1.5G external. Try turning off any non-booting drive connected to the machine and try again. If you don't have any external device connected then your system disc is either corrupt or dead and needs replacing or the operating system reinstalling.

Check the power supplies. check power cord plugged in properly to the machine snug and tight recommend a tech from Konica Minolta

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Restart, press DEL to enter BIOS and change the boot priority/sequence to boot from your HDD, second choice will be from CD-ROM and last from floppy. Next after saving the changes allow it to boot normally....sodeep.

sounds like a hard disk issue try booting from the original s install disk . the see if you can reapir the installtion
if it still can recognise the disk you probably have a hard disk problem. Eithe buy or get a techical person to call out and check the hard disk for you.
if you have win xp boot to the cd then choose repair at the first menu , when you get to the dos screen type in

chkdsk /f and let it do what it must to complete.

hope this helps

It can be a few things that are causing your issue; try these tips and see if any work for you: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aelm.html
If they don’t at least post what exactly happens when you try to boot, and we’ll help you further.