PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

Please help me I think I am going crazy.

I am building a comuter, I have everything setup and when I try to boot windows from a CD, I keep getting the same error

PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable.
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE-ROM
Boot failure: System Halted

I have tried changing the IDE cables, new hard drive, cd, floppy, put in only one stick of ram, then tried the other, and still I get the same error.

I tried taking a hard drive from another computer with windows xp already installed, Windows started but stoped when it went to load the Mup.sys file, then it would restart again, it kept the loop going. I tried to boot in safe mode, safe with comand,Last know config.,and still I can't get it going.

What can I do to get this thing running???

Please Help!
NCLEO

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

Try this discussion from WinDrivers forums and see if any of the suggestions there give you a clue to what's happening.

My inital gut feeling is that your hard drive is incorrectly installed. Are you sure that the drive is correctly jumpered, enabled in BIOS, and the boot order correctly set?

Also, you cannot use a Windows XP hard drive from a different PC without formatting it and installing XP again. The copyright protection makes it fail to boot up, as you've found out!

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

I had the same problem, but I think I got it fixed. I had 2 partitions on my HD on my HP Pavilion notebook. somehow, my first partition was deleted. It just said no os found, and went to PXE. I did factory restores, removed my HD, everything. finally figured it out, and fixed it with FDISK. just create a primary dos partition in the somehow empty space

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

[I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd toss my solution in...]

For me this error was caused by having 2 IDE devices (DVD-R and HD) both set to Master on the same IDE cable/connector. I moved the DVD-R to IDE 2 and all's well.

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

I had a similar problem as I tried to install a new disk on my Lap. Finally I found I had to :
1)format the first partition as primary and
2)set as active
I made this on my desktop with the "partition magic" programm

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

please help. i have a similar problem. i have a laptop compaq presario v2000 when i start it up it gives me pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable and also a PXE-M0F Exiting PXE ROM message. i have tried to reinstall OS but 1 min into installation is automatically shuts down on its own. If i try to load from hard drive I get the error message. I have tried change the boot sequence, disabling booting devices and also replacin the HD and nothing seems to work. I see the HD in the BIOS so i know its being recognized. please help.

Re: PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
 

when you get a "'PXE-M0F Exiting PXE ROM message" you are booting to PXE through bios. Turn off Network booting in bios entirely, and make sure that in your boot sequence, cd rom and hard drive are first. Network should be last in the boot sequence or not enabled at all.

So again, Go into Bios, and turn off Network booting. Make sure that your boot sequence goes cdrom-->hard drive. When you get a PXE message it's because you have network booting enabled.

PXE-E61
 

Disabling the network boot worked like a charm! Thanks indeed!!