Intel D845GRG and boot options.

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David Farber

This is really not a home built PC but I figured this group would have the
most all around PC knowledge. The PC is a Gateway, model # MFATXPNTNMZ500SE.
The motherboard is an Intel D845GRG.

I was called to service this PC which is networked into a very large home. I
found out the hard drive had been removed. Also, I really don't have much
experience in setting up or troubleshooting networks so maybe this is where
I am stuck. Most of my clients use stand alone Windows pc's hooked up to
their DSL or cable modems for internet.

I turned on the PC and the first screen of course said no hard drive found
and prompted me to hit, "ctrl alt b" to configure the boot system so I did.
The setup menu had the following choices:

PXE, TCP/IP, Netware, RPL. I left it alone since I wasn't sure what that was
supposed to do and the following text appeared on the screen and is
something I've never seen before:

Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.30 (build 3)
Supported NIC: 3com 10/100 Ethernet NIC (v2.32) (c) Copyright 2000 Lanworks
Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation. All rights reserved.
versions:

Main: v1.21, Loader: v3.05
Bootware: v2.11
AI: v1.02
PXE: v2.30 (base code build 79)
Config: v1.30
UNDI: v2.32, Loader: v3.05
Vendor:Device: 10B7:9200
Bootware type: 109 (6Dh)
Settings: 00020421
Defaults: 00000000
EEprom: FFFFFFFF

Please reboot your system

So I reboot and did not hit "ctrl alt b" I got the following text:

Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.22
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot
device.

I opened the computer and set the cmos jumper to config and then I got a
fairly normal looking boot setup menu.

Silent Boot: Enabled
Intel (R) Rapid Bias Boot: Enabled
PXE Boot to LAN: Enabled <-- ??? Don't know what this means.
USB Boot: Enabled

Other boot settings:
1st boot device: Atapi CD Rom.
2nd boot device: [Removable Dev.]
3rd boot device: [IBA 4.0.22 Slot 014] <-- ??? Don't know what this means.

Can somebody give me a general idea of what is going on here other than the
hard drive is missing? Is this system supposed to boot off of the network?
Could this system actually be used without its own hard drive?

Thanks for your reply.
 
David Farber said:
This is really not a home built PC but I figured this group would have the
most all around PC knowledge. The PC is a Gateway, model # MFATXPNTNMZ500SE.
The motherboard is an Intel D845GRG.

I was called to service this PC which is networked into a very large home. I
found out the hard drive had been removed. Also, I really don't have much
experience in setting up or troubleshooting networks so maybe this is where
I am stuck. Most of my clients use stand alone Windows pc's hooked up to
their DSL or cable modems for internet.

I turned on the PC and the first screen of course said no hard drive found
and prompted me to hit, "ctrl alt b" to configure the boot system so I did.
The setup menu had the following choices:

PXE, TCP/IP, Netware, RPL. I left it alone since I wasn't sure what that was
supposed to do and the following text appeared on the screen and is
something I've never seen before:

Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.30 (build 3)
Supported NIC: 3com 10/100 Ethernet NIC (v2.32) (c) Copyright 2000 Lanworks
Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation. All rights reserved.
versions:

Main: v1.21, Loader: v3.05
Bootware: v2.11
AI: v1.02
PXE: v2.30 (base code build 79)
Config: v1.30
UNDI: v2.32, Loader: v3.05
Vendor:Device: 10B7:9200
Bootware type: 109 (6Dh)
Settings: 00020421
Defaults: 00000000
EEprom: FFFFFFFF

Please reboot your system

So I reboot and did not hit "ctrl alt b" I got the following text:

Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.22
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot
device.

I opened the computer and set the cmos jumper to config and then I got a
fairly normal looking boot setup menu.

Silent Boot: Enabled
Intel (R) Rapid Bias Boot: Enabled
PXE Boot to LAN: Enabled <-- ??? Don't know what this means.
USB Boot: Enabled

Other boot settings:
1st boot device: Atapi CD Rom.
2nd boot device: [Removable Dev.]
3rd boot device: [IBA 4.0.22 Slot 014] <-- ??? Don't know what this means.

Can somebody give me a general idea of what is going on here other than the
hard drive is missing? Is this system supposed to boot off of the network?
Could this system actually be used without its own hard drive?

Thanks for your reply.
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It is trying to boot from network card ROM which may maynot be present,
but requires a suitable network server to allow Boot from Network. The hard
drive is NOT being detected, which is the problem you need to fix.
Mike.
 
If you have a bootable cd in the cdrom drive it will boot to the cd. Failing
that, since there is no hard drive, no bootable cd or bootable floppy in
either drive, it is trying a network boot. It is unlikely that the customer
is doing a network boot, it is just a boot setting by default. Normally the
hdd (the way I set them up anyway) would be third in the boot order. There
is nothing wrong with the machine from a boot standpoint apart from the fact
there is not bootable device in it.

David Farber said:
This is really not a home built PC but I figured this group would have the
most all around PC knowledge. The PC is a Gateway, model #
MFATXPNTNMZ500SE.
The motherboard is an Intel D845GRG.

I was called to service this PC which is networked into a very large home.
I
found out the hard drive had been removed. Also, I really don't have much
experience in setting up or troubleshooting networks so maybe this is
where
I am stuck. Most of my clients use stand alone Windows pc's hooked up to
their DSL or cable modems for internet.

I turned on the PC and the first screen of course said no hard drive found
and prompted me to hit, "ctrl alt b" to configure the boot system so I
did.
The setup menu had the following choices:

PXE, TCP/IP, Netware, RPL. I left it alone since I wasn't sure what that
was
supposed to do and the following text appeared on the screen and is
something I've never seen before:

Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v4.30 (build 3)
Supported NIC: 3com 10/100 Ethernet NIC (v2.32) (c) Copyright 2000
Lanworks
Technologies Co. a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation. All rights reserved.
versions:

Main: v1.21, Loader: v3.05
Bootware: v2.11
AI: v1.02
PXE: v2.30 (base code build 79)
Config: v1.30
UNDI: v2.32, Loader: v3.05
Vendor:Device: 10B7:9200
Bootware type: 109 (6Dh)
Settings: 00020421
Defaults: 00000000
EEprom: FFFFFFFF

Please reboot your system

So I reboot and did not hit "ctrl alt b" I got the following text:

Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.22
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot
device.

I opened the computer and set the cmos jumper to config and then I got a
fairly normal looking boot setup menu.

Silent Boot: Enabled
Intel (R) Rapid Bias Boot: Enabled
PXE Boot to LAN: Enabled <-- ??? Don't know what this means.
USB Boot: Enabled

Other boot settings:
1st boot device: Atapi CD Rom.
2nd boot device: [Removable Dev.]
3rd boot device: [IBA 4.0.22 Slot 014] <-- ??? Don't know what this means.

Can somebody give me a general idea of what is going on here other than
the
hard drive is missing? Is this system supposed to boot off of the network?
Could this system actually be used without its own hard drive?

Thanks for your reply.
Click to expand...
 
David Farber said:
This is really not a home built PC but I figured this group would have the
most all around PC knowledge. The PC is a Gateway, model # MFATXPNTNMZ500SE.
The motherboard is an Intel D845GRG.
Click to expand...

If it's a standard 845GRG then the bios is accessed via F2. There is then
an option to select boot devices / order etc. What you are seeing is the
machine trying to boot off the network. I'm assuming you'll want to boot
from a CD or floppy. You may find the options need changing in the bios for
this as it may have been set not to boot from either CD or FDD. The
(standard) Intel bios is fairly easy to understand once in there via F2.

Bill
 
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