re: problem with starting up: operating system not found Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 7:25 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Heather Roeder (1 messages posted) Hi, I am having a similar problem but here is what brought it on... My brilliant yet impulsive son has been doing all kinds of crazy things to his XBOX hard drive and decided one day to unplug my hard drive and plug his xbox hard drive into my computer. Oooopppss...PC not working every since. I get the same error messages about PXEMOF etc...but I can not get the bios settings to load when I press F2 my only option is setup and network boot. I have checked all cables Checked jumpers Checked Set up settings Tried to load off of restore disk reset CMOS.. and am going nuts...any other thoughts or suggestions 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! > > Written in response to: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Pat: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 at 9:14 am) Responses to this message: re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Pam: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 5:57 am) All messages in this thread [show all] problem with starting up: operating system not found (Pat: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 9:14 am) re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Captain Lon: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 9:51 am) re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (werner: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 9:53 am) re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 10:54 am) re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Heather Roeder: Sun, Sep 24, 2006, 7:25 am) re: problem with starting up: operating system not found (Pam: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 5:57 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum