I have Compaq Armada M700. Actually I have 4 that I just bought from a
company that erases data for other companies. So everything is gone. I
start it and make sure the bios is set to boot from the CD drive. But
I get the following errors. "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable"
and then it tells me to put a bootable disk in the drive.

I've tried the disk but it still stays on that message????

I went to this link "http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3247.shtml" and
tried most of the suggestions, but to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Daniel M

(Plll, 256 ram, 20gb, 700mhz, 1 usb, 1 cd rom, no floppy)

"rusrus" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have Compaq Armada M700. Actually I have 4 that I just bought from a
>company that erases data for other companies. So everything is gone. I
>start it and make sure the bios is set to boot from the CD drive. But
>I get the following errors. "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable"
>and then it tells me to put a bootable disk in the drive.
>
>I've tried the disk but it still stays on that message????

This has nothing to do with Windows XP.

You have a hardware issue.

"rusrus" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have Compaq Armada M700. Actually I have 4 that I just bought from a
> company that erases data for other companies. So everything is gone. I
> start it and make sure the bios is set to boot from the CD drive. But
> I get the following errors. "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable"
> and then it tells me to put a bootable disk in the drive.
>
> I've tried the disk but it still stays on that message????
>
> I went to this link "http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3247.shtml" and
> tried most of the suggestions, but to no avail.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Daniel M
>
> (Plll, 256 ram, 20gb, 700mhz, 1 usb, 1 cd rom, no floppy)
>

You may have bought 3 laptops plus one paper weight.