Media test cable fail??

Dancontrol0

Dancontrol0

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Hello eveyone, friday is here and hope we could work together to find what is going on with my laptop.
I found out my HDD was broken so I bought a new Fujitsu 60 GB and install it and then I ran the Compaq Operation system cd that came with laptop. what came out is the following:
Initailing MBA press cntrl/alt/b

Then something like this came out:
PXE-E61: Media test fail check cables

Finaly this come out:
Operation system not found

What could be going wrong??

Thank you for dropping by and checking it out.:confused:
 
is trying to boot from to a network set network boot or try other boot devices disable. place the hard drive as the first boot device.
 
As Kof said, it's trying to boot from the network. Be sure the boot order's correct and the drive is setup and being detected in the bios correctly. I think some machines will disregard the boot order if it can't find anything and just use the network as a failsafe. Perhaps because you havn't loaded anything on the hard drive(IE no Master Boot Record...)
 
no PCs always complete the boot strap process, so the OP probably has PXE boot enabled before the HD, but once that fails it would go on to the next thing and so on and so on. It would eventually hit the HD, unless it is actually disabled in the BIOS which is not a default feature. I assume someone has been tinkering in the BIOS or that the HD is bad and the computer is searching for other bootable media.
 
ok I have them in this order:
Hard drive
cd-rom
built-in Lan
removable devices

I notice that when the cable fail comes out this also comes out:
Argon PXE Boot Agentv2.01(BIOS Intregrated)
Copyrights ect....

Pre-Boot exeuction Enviroment ( PXE
Copyright ect.......

When I press f12 instead of f2 it boot from Lan but samething comes out.
 
tlarkin said:
so you have PXE booting enabled on your server?
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I Am not an expert in networking. I just bought my D-link, follow direction and got it working. It been a year since it been install. So I dont know if it PXE booting enabled.
Thank you for your reply :)
 
Dancontrol0 said:
I Am not an expert in networking. I just bought my D-link, follow direction and got it working. It been a year since it been install. So I dont know if it PXE booting enabled.
Thank you for your reply :)
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You think I should just pay to get it fix? It will not be cheap but if it to complicated for me to fix maybe I just should do it.
Thanks
 
Dancontrol0 said:
I Am not an expert in networking. I just bought my D-link, follow direction and got it working. It been a year since it been install. So I dont know if it PXE booting enabled.
Thank you for your reply :)
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I highly doubt you have a netboot enabled server running.

Does the system even detect your HD in the BIOS? I think you are confusing what I asked you. Your system is trying to boot from the network because it can not find any other bootable media. Since your HD is set first and it is not booting off of it you either have some OS corruption, no OS loaded, or a bad Hard drive.
 
tlarkin said:
I highly doubt you have a netboot enabled server running.

Does the system even detect your HD in the BIOS? I think you are confusing what I asked you. Your system is trying to boot from the network because it can not find any other bootable media. Since your HD is set first and it is not booting off of it you either have some OS corruption, no OS loaded, or a bad Hard drive.
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I just install my new HD. How could I check to see if it dectect it? I know how to go into my bios. How could I check from there?
 
tlarkin said:
okay, then you need to install an OS and you should be done. I have been really confused on this whole thread.
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That What I been tryig to do all this time but it give me those messages that i posted in the beging of this thread. Could I be install the wrong OS. I have a red cd OS and a 4 cd OS that are number SP-1, SP-2, SP-3, SP-4. I tried the Red OS cd and the OS SP-1.
I try booting from Hd then From Cd drive and samething happens.
I know it confusing to me too.Thanks for trying.
 
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