Cannot Boot from Any Device... ThinkPad Edge e250.

Hey Guys
I Have a major issue i can't boot from any device. I bought a bigger hardrive and the hard drive works fine (works in my desktop) I have a couple of different windows installation and operating systems all bought from Microsoft and they work fine on my other computers. Ive tried booting to one of these CD's and even copied it to a USB and i cant boot to any one of them i have no idea what else i can do ? Is there anyone that can help me ?

What other devices have you tried to boot from? Is your HDD functional with an OS installed on it?
The laptop is defaulting to PXE (network) boot - either because it doesn't find another bootable device, or because PXE has been set first in the boot order. (or something is badly broken...)
Hit F12 during boot and see if you can boot from HDD or a CD/DVD. Check BIOS for the boot order.
Z.
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What other devices have you tried to boot from? Is your HDD functional with an OS installed on it?
The laptop is defaulting to PXE (network) boot - either because it doesn't find another bootable device, or because PXE has been set first in the boot order. (or something is badly broken...)
Hit F12 during boot and see if you can boot from HDD or a CD/DVD. Check BIOS for the boot order.
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I think this is no matter if the issue would be related to mobo or GPU in both cases the motherboard needs to be replaced. But if you area able to access the BIOS then the mobo could be ok.
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>"the Happy Mac Face..."The Happy Mac SE is smiling because it found valid Boot Blocks on a drive, and will now try to boot from that drive. If the CD is no longer in the drive, it is booting from the Hard Drive you installed. Either the Hard Disk Driver or parts of the System installed on that Hard Drive are bad, or the SCSI termination is not right. You should not set the Hard drive to ID=3 (only the low two ADDR jumpers installed) as that is the address used for the "C"-key device, such as a SCSI CD Drive.
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Sorry you are having trouble.
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panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x894ec373, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00df8000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0a5a1004
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0x817c3b08 : 0x19e517 (0x817c3b20 0xa83c980 0x817c3bc8 0x894ec373)
0x817c3b18 : 0x894ec373 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x817c3bc8 : 0x894db540 (0x0 0xa83c980 0xa4c5c00 0x1)
0x817c3c08 : 0x78d45139 (0xa4c5c00 0x1 0x0 0x13)
0x817c3c68 : 0x78d3e940 (0xa4c5c00 0x2407 0x817c3d2c 0xa4c5c00)
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0x817c3ce8 : 0x437535 (0xa4c5c00 0xacd8130 0xacd8130 0x0)
0x817c3d48 : 0x18c8aa (0xa4c5c00 0xacd8130 0x0 0x0)
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0x817c3f08 : 0x196afc (0x817c3f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x817c3fc8 : 0x19eb34 (0xab382a0 0x0 0x1a10b5 0xa63f208)
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com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0x894d8000->0x89704fff
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x78ac0000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x78d36000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x78d36000->0x78d51fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x78ac0000
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Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
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I really appreciate everyone's help.
I am certainly not above taking the machine in but I will say this.....
I have been building and working on PC's for 15-20 years. I have never once used or had the need for a repair shop. It is my hobby. I recently switched to osx to give the mac a try and I love it.
I will say that vista/xp has four times as many problems but at least i can fix whatever comes my way hardware or software.
Any more ideas how to settle this without making my first trip to the repair shop ever?...
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Thank U ALOT Richk, i do what U say and also before that i restore the default bios setting and restor the keys to the factory settings. i write this as it may help some one another.
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