help again x-x

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well i got my laptop fixed after messing around for awhile however new issiue.. erm.. i just got a gaming desktop the person i got it from sead they reformated the drive and placed windows XP sp3 on it..

however when i got it home and turned it on, it kept saying
reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key

I pressed any key and it kept repeating that, what do i do?

did i get screwed ? im flying blind here =(
 
Check to make sure the hard drive is detected by the BIOS and make sure that the hard drive is selected as the first boot device in the boot order.
 
Well its a sata drive btw, um.. it has the dvd rom as the first boot, should i switch that?
 
Yes, and you may want to set the Southbridge or SATA/IDE settings to legacy IDE. The previous owner may not have installed the chipset drivers on the install.
 
ah i was watching the screen abit more and this message popped up saying express gate is not instailed on my system.. what does that mean? i switched the boot list just now btw
 
Express gate is a mini operating system that resides in the BIOS I believe. So now I know this is an ASUS motherboard. You must give full detailed specs of the system and hardware. Settings in the BIOS and everything pertinent to the issue you have makes this so much easier. You can't get very far quickly guessing everything.
 
OK.Read this thread. Get the Ultimate boot CD. You're up late in Fargo and I'm in Hawaii (jealous yet?) and getting ready to hit the sack. There are some good links to guides in the thread I linked. This is a boot issue and it looks like the OS is not being recognised from the hard drive. That leads me to believe that the AHCI/SATA drivers were not installed and the southbridge is trying to access AHCI boot data. Set the southbridge to LEGACY IDE in the BIOS so you can check is that is the case.
Or the guy who sold you this screwed up and didn't install properly.
Also, get rid of that fan that doesn't work properly
 
well how do i do that in the bios? o.o and yeah.. i need to get up to work at 10 x__x but im worryed i got screwed over with this rig so hence why im trying disperetly to fix it
 
Down load the manual for the board and see which page in the BIOS you need to get to. It will come in handy. I'll check for you. Chapter 2. First page in the BIOS Under SATA configuration Set to SATA, then try AHCI if that doesn't work. If it's set to SATA the drive must be on port 1-4 on the board 5-6 has to be set on AHCI
 
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