Manic_Skafe

When I left my computer last night everything was fine and when I came down this morning I saw this message flashing across my screen:



{For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8310/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2. 13 (020326)
Pxe-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable
Pxe-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.}

I'm running XP home edition and it doesn't even begin to load - it takes an usually long time to load from the startup screen and directly to this error message. Now I can enter the BIOS but there aren't any settings that seem to be out of the ordinary.

Intel Pentium M 1.60 GhZ
512MB DDR2 SDRAM (2x256MB)
60 gig Hard drive
Internal 802.11b/g WLAN

Any idea what's gone wrong?

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Dilbert1234567

my first instinct says dead hard drive, can you enter bios and see if your hard drive is listed, if it is, do you have a second computer to place this hard drive in and see if you can get some of your data off of it?

or is it a laptop with that pentium M....

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Confederate

never mind saw it was a Pentium M. I would look at your manufacturers website on repair. They may have a tutorial on checking for bad parts

Dilbert1234567

do you have a second computer?

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cyrnel

Do you see it struggle with the hard drive before the PXE screen above? If not, someone may have messed with your BIOS boot order settings.

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Manic_Skafe

God, I love this board.

I'm leaning towards the dead hard drive theory and I'll be testing it out with another later today.

Thanks.

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