Cant turn off PXE

[emily]

I have a machine that used to boot off of a network. I am
not sure exactly how it works, but at boot up the
computer goes to the NIC card first to locate a boot file
from the network. Well, I dont want it to boot from the
network, I want it to boot from the hard drive, but I
cant get it to quit looking for the boot file on the
network. I have gone into Bios and turned off the NIC,
and PXE support, but it still does the same thing.

Any suggestions?

 

[Doug Allen [MSFT]]

It sounds like you're close Emily, but you need to be looking in the boot
order in your BIOS.

 

[Ray at]

In the BIOS settings, there should be some place where you can specify the
boot device order. Set your hard drive to be the first device, or at least
listed prior to the network book option. May computers will search for boot
devices in one of these orders:

FLOPPY
CD ROM
HARD DRIVE

===========

CD ROM
HARD DRIVE

I personally have mine set to only look at the hard drive to make things a
few seconds faster if the computer boots up while there's a floppy or CD ROM
in a drive.

Ray at work

 

[Steve Marfisi]

Hi Emily - sounds like your problem is on a PC that is non-BBS (Boot
BIOS Spec) compliant. Here is what you need to do - get the DOS
diagnostic that came with the NIC. Use it to disable the ROM. Some
NICs came with Windows utils that can do this from Windows.

What NIC is it that you have?

Regards,
Steve Marfisi
(e-mail address removed)