Hi, your laptop will try and boot an operating system in a given order denoted under your bios, usually it will look for a bootable cd or dvd first (which is why the light on your cd/dvd drive flashes when you switch on your laptop), it will then try and find an operating system on the hard drive and if all else fails will try and boot from a network connection. In this instance it looks like what it is telling you is that is has failed to detect bootable media in the cd/dvd rom drive (i.e. no windows disc), it has failed to detect a bootable hard drive and it has failed to detect a bootable network connection.
It sounds very likely that either your hard drive was damaged in the fall or the connection has become unstable so first off remove the lower covers from your laptop and remove and refit your hard drive, try to power it up and see what happens. Let us know how you go.
Hope this helps
John
Thanks for the quick reply!
I don't understand how I'm supposed to remove the lower covers from my laptop though, it is a mini-laptop and I have tried to check for ways to do it but I can't seem to find a solution?
What model laptop do you have? If you let me know the make and model I will try and find some details to help you.
John
There does not seem to be an online service manual for your laptop. You will need to tocate the cover on the underside of the laptop, the hard drive is approx 2.5 x 4 inches and the cover is not usually much bigger, normally it will be secured by a couple of philips head screws, remove the cover and remove and refit the hard drive and try it.
John
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system is trying to boot to a network, this is most likely due to the hard disk drive not being detected, or the windows operating system is missing.
First reset the BIOS defaults, see if the system detects the HDD in the bios and will now boot.
Run diagnostics on the hard disk drive, which I suspect it will fail.
If diags on the drive pass, they try reinstalling Windows. But I expect you'll be replacing the drive.
SOURCE: I have an Acer Aspire1
A computer tries to "boot" from many devices:
* 3.5-inch floppy-disk (if available)
* USB memory-stick (if connected)
* internal CD/DVD device
* external CD/DVD device
* internal disk-drive
* over your network-cable, by talking to a "network boot server".
When it tries to boot over the network-cable, and *NO* "boot-server" responds,
you get the "check cable connection" and "exiting from P(re)(e)X(ecution)E(nvironment)" mode.
If it cannot boot from your 'C:' drive, and cannot boot from the network boot-server,
your computer responds "no bootable device" and "insert boot disk" (into CD or floppy-disk),
and "press any key" (to try again to boot).
What this USUALLY means is that your 'C:' disk-drive has stopped working,
meaning that Windows cannot be "booted" from it.
Seek help from a qualified technician to trouble-shoot your disk-drive, and/or to replace it, and/or to reinstall Windows, and/or to "repair" your existing Windows installation.
SOURCE: i being asked to check
This usually means your hard drive has failed. You could try taking out and putting back the hard drive, there's a couple of screws on the base for the hard drive cover. 9 times out of 10 though, you will need a new hard drive.
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Thanks, the laptop is a packard bell mini laptop model: PAV80. Sophie
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