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    Asus G73jh - won't boot.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Roflbear, Sep 9, 2012.

  1. Roflbear

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    Hi guys sorry if this is in the wrong thread, I couldn't find one relevant.

    I have a G73jh. The HDD has been playing up for some time, about 3 months. I'd be playing a in windowed mode and everything would freeze but the cursor moved, rebooting gave you a selecta boot device message. A little punch and it would start working again.

    Anyway I guess the punching took its toll, the cylinder heads seized. But I'm now worried I've damage the DVD drive.

    You should know I've taken the HDD out, I've ordered a new SSD. Isn't here yet.

    When I boot with windows DVDs it asked to insert bootable media. I've set the priority to DVD drive etc.

    I get a black screen with "Reboot and select a proper boot Device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

    At this point I've tried pressing a key. Nothing but repeats of the message above but, this might be key, it attempts to read the DVD for a while I presume since it takes 30secs or so to display the error gain.

    I also tried putting Unbuntu in a DVD AND an external HDD but if I boot off the drive I get a flashing cursor in the top left of the black screen only.

    Any ideas?
     
    Roflbear, Sep 9, 2012
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