Open Question: Laptop won't boot, have to go into recovery, quit the recovery in order to boot..... help!?

7:44 AM Posted by Nadim

Laptop won't boot, have to go into recovery, quit the recovery in order to boot..... help!?
Whenever I turn on my laptop, it fails to boot... Right after the option screen, it gives me a black screen with the following

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Broadcom UNDI PXE.......(and the details)

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 03 25 22 D7 32 GUID:23144656 6734 6725 5610 20233557
PXE-E53: No boot filename received

PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.

Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

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when I press a key, it repeats the whole process and fails to boot.....

I always have to keep pressing during the initial screen to bring up the recovery screen, exit from the recovery (without actually recovering the comp) in order to boot..

And sometimes doesn't work, even when I keep pressing it, it brings back that black screen... then I would have to turn off the laptop and turn it on and

If I'm lucky, it boots.....

My laptop is a Gateway, 6 years old......

I tried recovering it using my recovery disks, but shortly after it goes back to starting with the black screen that doesn't boot anything......

What to do?? Is it worth fixing or do I need to get a new laptop?


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