re: problem with starting up: operating system not found
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Captain Lon
(47 messages posted)
It sounds like it cannot see the hard drive to boot from, or it is not trying to
boot from the hard drive.
You will have to go into your BIOS to check some things. Check the boot order.
Remove any reference to "LAN boot ", or at the very least, make it last on the list.
Make sure the hard drive is one of the choices. A good booting order is:
Optical drive (CD or DVD), Floppy, Hard Drive, and LAN would be last if you can't
remove it completely.
Now that you are in the BIOS, make sure that it recognizes the hard drive. Perhaps
BIOS can't see it because of bad connection, or bad cable, or some other reason,
such as hard drive itself going bad.
Check and clean the connections to the cables and hard drive.
Check to see if there are any upgrades for the BIOS available from the manufacturer.
Let us know if any of these ideas help.
Capt. Lon
On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:14 am, Pat wrote:
>Hi, all, I've been having problems with booting up my Dell laptop and am in need
>of some help here. I just recently reformatted my HD. A couple of weeks later,
>my laptop starts having problem when I boot it up. What happens is that the DVD-Rom
>drive would make a loud clicking sound, and then my laptop would give me the following
>message:
>
>Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.19
>Copyright (C) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
>PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
>PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
>Operating system not found
>
>Then I'd turn the computer off and turn it back on and repeat the same process for
>8-10 times, and eventually it would boot up. This only happens if I leave my computer
>turned off for more than 4-5 hours.
>
>My DVD-Rom was having trouble playing DVD before, but after I took it out of the
>drive and put it back in, it works fine, so I don't know if this is a HD problem
>or a DVD drive problem. And I don't know if this is because I reinstalled XP just
>a while ago.
>
>So far I've tried taking the battery and the HD out and put them back in, but it's
>not helping the situation. Please help! It's driving me crazy! Thanks!
>
>
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