Okay, need help and not sure how long puter is going to cooperate with me today, she's being tempermental....
quick summery...
Worked fine this am, however left alone for bout an hour, came back and instead of it being in the screensaver type mode, my screen showed....
Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key, ,

if anyone one out there can help, would be appreciated. If unable to access computer to check for replies, i will have the opportunity at work on Tuesday to check this site..

ok, was advised to restart the system and reset the Bios default values...haven't done yet as i am sure this forum has really really good computer peeps, wanted your feed back before doing so.
Was told that it's an error at Start-up, the reason for having to reset the values, your opinions? Sound like i've been given the proper advice?

Hello, which OS are you running?

dont laugh, not up on all the puter terms, but think your asking about puter type, so HP desktop, if this is not the answer your looking for, please advise...sorry...

I wont laugh
I ran your error in google. There are lots of answers. The ones I've looked at were for Microsoft Windows. So Windows or Linux ?

windows

what i don't understand with all this is that 2+ hours ago i couldn't get access to anything, just showed the screen regarding the boot, so i shut computer down, left it for an hour or so, and it came right up as normal.

The problem could be a number of things it's hard to tell from here exactly what it is. Your hard drive couldbe failing so you should backup any important files you need. Do you have any spare hard drives you can swap and test?

Go into BIOS and make sure that the boot-up sequence is correct. Do you have more than one hard drive plugged in?

no spare hard drives, only one plugged in.

Is it an IDE or SATA hard drive?

as for BIOS, what would a correct boot-up sequence look like and/or read?

You want the one and only hard drive you have to be first. Later you may want to make it second and make the CD/DVD drive first. This way you can boot from a CD if needed but for now make it first until this is resolved.

UMMMMMMMMMMMM...and how bout those Giants???

Just discovered reply w/quote...
UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...how bout those Giants???

Not a clue re: IDE or SATA hard drive....

Well, one of these computer mysteries ...
(I do not know a thing about windows, run the error in google and look at the fist few links).

Edit : sorry, there have been some answers in the mean time. I had the windows open but answering some place else

Where would i need to check to find out if first drive or not?

To find out you're going to have to open up your case.

Look carefully at the cables coming out from the hard drive. If it's an IDE it will look like this. If it's a SATA it will look like this.

Will do, thanks for the help and info on good place to start....

ok, hopefully i can get it all back together once opening it...yikes....new package in a box, trying to put back in flashbacks....scary....

okay, kids are looking and asking to see all the smiley's and there actions, very distracting so will take your advice and continue when the kids are not all gathering around me laughing their butts off!