Solved! American Megatrends laptop aptio set up -

[mowens1229]

I was following some advice about getting out of Aptio setup utility screen and this is what I get when I hit F9: stuck at reboot & selct proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device & press a key???

 

[hang-the-9]

Could be several things, the drive is bad (replace drive and install Windows on that), it's loose (reseat it), the BIOS options for the drive changed (ATA or Legacy, AHCI, Raid), USEFI Bios was enabled when the laptop was setup under Legacy mode or Secure boot was enabled and system was running with it disabled before.

 

[hang-the-9]

Could be several things, the drive is bad (replace drive and install Windows on that), it's loose (reseat it), the BIOS options for the drive changed (ATA or Legacy, AHCI, Raid), USEFI Bios was enabled when the laptop was setup under Legacy mode or Secure boot was enabled and system was running with it disabled before.