my laptop(gateway) just keeps repeating the bios screen on start up

[Sk23]

I recently updated my laptop and after it finished updating and installing I turned it back on and now it just keeps repeating the bios screen over and over and over.. .help!

 

[Jakku]

Is there any specific error message quickly displayed before your computer restarts?

 

[Sk23]

No it just appears to start up like normal and shows the bios screen for a quick 3 seconds and then its goes black and then goes on to repeating the bios screen again

 

[Jakku]

If you go into your BIOS settings (normally accessed by pressing a key like Delete, F12, F1, F5, etc), please could you check if it detects your harddrive.

 

[Sk23]

where under the bios settings would I be able to locate to see if the harddrive is detected?

 

[Jakku]

Look through the various sections of your BIOS, but don't change anything.
When you see something like 'SATA Primary' or 'IDE Master' or 'SATA Primary Master' or 'Harddrive' or something similar, stop there.
It might have the size of the harddrive also, eg: 500GB.

If you see something like the above but next to all of them there is a 'Not Detected' message, then either your harddrive is disconnected or there is something wrong with it.

Also, there might be something in the Slave sections, but this is normally your CD/DVD drive and it normally says too.

Edit: Thanks for the best solution!

 

[Sk23]

Ill check it out and I will let you know how it went, I am currently away from my laptop but in case the hard drive is disconnected how might I re connect it. and if there is something wrong how would I fix it?

 

[Jakku]

There should be door on the bottom or side of your laptop. The little icon on it might look like this: http://blog.thepcmechanic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hard-drive-symbol.jpg

Unscrew the door, and make sure that the harddrive is seated correctly. If it is on the bottom, you can probably see the SATA/IDE connectors on the laptop, make sure they are properly connected to the harddrive itself.