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My laptop frozed and after a restart went to a black screen.

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ElielVazq Posts 1 Registration date Wednesday March 12, 2014 Status Member Last seen March 12, 2014 - Mar 12, 2014 at 06:51 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Mar 12, 2014 at 07:02 PM
The other day my laptop had frozen, after a couple of minutes of nothing i manually restarted upon turning back on it went to a black screen saying:

'Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 083)
Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Intel Corporation

This product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
US5, 307, 459, US5, 434, 872, US5, 732,094, US6, 570, 864, US6, 115, 776 AND US6, 327, 625

Realtek PCI2 GBE Family Controller Series v2.46 (08/23/12)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

Reboot and select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Root device and press a key_'

but now 2 days after it goes to the'Aptio Setup Utility' which lets me only fondle with some of the options not all.

i have a Asus laptop, Series R500A

please help
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Mar 12, 2014 at 07:02 PM
So you are stuck in the BIOS (that Aptio screen) which can't find a hard disk to boot from.

My best guess is you will need to replace the hard drive and re-install Windows.