Boot up error.

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railway0

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Hi. I have a Dell Optiplex Gx100 Desk top computer. It will not boot up it keeps saying check cables I have tried anothe cable that is new with no look also I have tried anothe hard drive. It will not boot from cd or hard drive , can anyone offer any help please.
Thank you
 
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yes I can get into the bios, i don't know if the bios recognises the ide drive.
I get error message :
PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable.
PXE. mof. Exiting PXE.
Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for set up utility.
After pressing F1 i get same error message.
Does this mean anything to you???? this is way over my head.
 
Sounds like it's not seeing the hard drive, that message your getting is the system trying to boot off of the LAN. Check IDE cable , go back into the BIOS and see if the drive is detected.
 
make sure the cables are not reversed that pin 0 (the red stripe) is closest to the powersupply connector
 
That's an old desktop, so it's reasonable to expect a mechanical failure of some sort.

I would unplug the power and ribbon cable from the CDROM and try and boot from the HDD. A media test failure, though, usually means that the HDD is pooched.

Try something else for a test. Unplug the cables from the HDD and just leave the CD plugged in. Try to boot off the CD. If it works, then you know that the HDD is bad.

While you try these options make sure you have a fresh ribbon cable installed and that it's plugged in the right way.
 
Skimming over google, that error appears to be network card related. I suspect something's gone wrong with the HD, so the next boot device was the network card...
 
I changed the cable on the hard drive and the cd drive,and still got the same error message so, I fitted a new hard drive and managed to install windows xp. When I boot up my computer now I am getting a error saying :
Disk 1 seek failure. Do I now need to go into Bios and change the settings, if so what are they???
Thanks
 
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