I just talked to a guy at a notebook parts company and he said that I would get nothing on the screen if the motherboard was bad. He thinks it is a bad connector from the MB to the HD. They costs...

I don't have the recovery CD for the notebook. I was just using a copy of Windows XP Pro set-up disk. Does that matter?

It does recognize the hard drive in the BIOS. I also tried taking out the Hard Drive and no Hard Drive showed up in the BIOS.

I tried changing the boot up in the BIOS to the CD-ROM and put the Windows XP CD in but nothing comes up. You can hear the CD spinning for a while though.

I just bought an HP ZE 4145 notebook computer that needed repair. When I turn it on, it comes up with an error message - PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable and then Operating system not found. I...