re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 11:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) See if you can enter the bios and make sure the harddrive is listed as 1st boot device. Since its a laptop, it might be a little harder to check to make sure that the cable attached to the drive is snug at both ends. It sounds to me though like it might be trying to boot a network via the network card. So thats why i'm saying check to make sure that the hard drive is set as first boot device. I also did a google search on Intel pxe rom and this is what the results came up as... http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=EGLC,EGLC:2007-08,EGLC:en&q=Intel+PXE+Rom It might not be a bad idea to check these out for possible fixes. On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 6:41 am, Pam wrote: >Hey everybody I'm Pam from Michigan, I'm new here so I hope I'm posting this properly >and in the right place. Here's my problem. >When turning on my IBM Thinkpad I get this message-PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Pxe-MOF:-Exiting >Intel PXE Rom>operating system not found. If I turned it off and on a few times >it would usually let me into windows. I bought the laptop used and they didn't have >the recovery or restore discs. >The big problem=my husband decided to fix it by trying to put his Nobilis Windows >XP home on The IBM Thinkpad. Of course that didn't work but now I can't get into >my Thinkpad windows xp pro at all. >Now it gets scarier, I don't know what he's done now but the system goes through >like it's going to boot(I couldn't read it all it went too fast) then came the initializing >____boot agent(I'm not sure what the blank was as it flashed and went away so quickly) >then a black screen saying Operating system not found. >Please someone help me before my husband kills my computer. Thanks, >Pam Written in response to: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Pam: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 6:41 am) Responses to this message: re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Pam: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 8:42 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Pam: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 6:41 am) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Kevinh: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 8:08 am) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Johnb33: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 11:02 am) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Pam: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 8:42 pm) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Mario: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 3:45 pm) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Johnb33: Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 4:01 pm) re: Windows XP pro-Operating system not found (Jacob6601: Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 8:09 pm) 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