media test and rom error I think

G

Guest

my computer froze up and when I rebooted a message came up
that said: "PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable". The next line
reads: "PXE-MOF: exiting intel pxe rom". There are two options after that;
press f1 to try to reboot or f2 to go into setup. F1 comes back to the same
place, and I didn't see anything in the setup that looked amiss, but I 'm
not sure I'd know if I saw it anyway. I opened it up and the cables all
were on tight. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any help.
 
M

Malke

sc said:
my computer froze up and when I rebooted a message came up
that said: "PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable". The next line
reads: "PXE-MOF: exiting intel pxe rom". There are two options after
that;
press f1 to try to reboot or f2 to go into setup. F1 comes back to
the same place, and I didn't see anything in the setup that looked
amiss, but I 'm
not sure I'd know if I saw it anyway. I opened it up and the cables
all
were on tight. Any suggestions?

A PXE boot is a network boot that looks to a PXE server for the boot
files. Your motherboard supports booting from a PXE boot server but you
don't have one. The computer is trying to boot from a PXE server since
it probably can't find any other boot devices. Go into the BIOS (F2)
and check if your hard drive is seen. If it is not, then you have a
hardware problem. This would fit with the "computer froze up".

You can try and troubleshoot this yourself but success depends on the
level of your hardware skills and what other hardware you have
available for testing. Only you know your abilities. Here are some
general hardware troubleshooting steps:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

If you can't do the testing yourself, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Malke
 
R

Rock

my computer froze up and when I rebooted a message came up
that said: "PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable". The next line
reads: "PXE-MOF: exiting intel pxe rom". There are two options after
that;
press f1 to try to reboot or f2 to go into setup. F1 comes back to the
same
place, and I didn't see anything in the setup that looked amiss, but I 'm
not sure I'd know if I saw it anyway. I opened it up and the cables all
were on tight. Any suggestions?

Thanks for any help.


This is a hardware, not an XP OS issue. Post to a hardware newsgroup or
take it in for repair.
 

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