Hello, I'm experiencing a problem again, my screen went to blue then when I turned on the computer the screen stopped on the Toshiba opening page with f2 setup, f12 for boot device selection menu on the bottom left. I hit f12 then a repeating message of pxt-e61 (media test failure, check cable) and pxe-m0f (exiting pxe rom). All I did when this happened was uploading some pictures off my camera. Now the computer will not do anything. I don't have the reboot disc with me as I'm in Iraq, so is there something I can try without the disc besides turning the computer on and off. I don't have access to hook up the computer to the internet also.
Thank You
J.
wdmiafirelt@yahoo.com

If your camera is still hooked up to your pc that may cause your pc to think that it is an external HD and try to boot from it. You should cahnge the boot order in your BIOS (f2-setup I presume). 1'st one should be HD. Also look for the "boot from LAN" and disable if enabled.

Well I've went into the boot mood, HD is first, cd-rom 2nd, usb 3rd and network is listed 4th, still nothing is going on. I did notice that the bios listed shadowed, would this have anything to do with it? This the 2nd time it's happened but rebooting the first time worked ok, I was thinking of putting it in safe mood but can't do that now.
Thank You
fireguy iraq

Don't get it.

Do you mean the list in the BIOS settings window (on the screen) is shadowed?

If you mean memory shadowing, that does have much to do with the booting.

1. A description of BIOS shadowing, from computerhope.com:
2. PXE errors are generated by the network boot ROM. In other words, the boot process is attempting a network boot (your BIOS' 4th boot option), which means that your system was unable to boot from a HDD, CD-ROM, or USB device (the first 3 boot options).

Check/reseat your connectors, especially those of the hard drive. Can you tell if the HDD is at least spinning up when you start the machine?

HAHA.. Stop hitting your laptop! They are very fragile beings
Seriously, I just sorted that problem and yes it was HDD failiure. With a toshiba or fujitsu machine i think that's inevitable.
However on this Acer i had to fix, he had cracked the side of the lap. Upon inspection i noticed also that HDD was not attached with screws at all, on a else brand new machine. So could been one or the other. It was busted tho (wich earned me some new RAM peices )

..after handing the Acer back to my neighbour, i hear sounds like "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!"
At least I know to salvage some stuf in the nick of time, I'm certain those Ram chips will be better off in MY new Acer

Hello... I am having a similar problem with my Acer laptop. 3003WLCi

When attempting to start up the computer, I get:

PXE-M04
Operating System Not Found

I've shut the laptop off many times and every times it goes into the screen to try and reboot.

It offers to "press <esc> to bypass LAN Check

The DHCP........| does its things and then the
PXE-M04
Operating System Not Found


when I hit F12 I have the following settings:

Quiet Boot: Enabled
Power on Display : Auto
Network Boot: Enabled
F12 Boot Menu: Disabled
D2D Recovery: Enabled


On the Boot tab:

Hard Drive (highlighted)


Any suggestions? Also, if I need to check and see if the hard drive is properly connected, is there a guide to show me a drawing of the laptop so I know where I'm going?

Also, about a month ago, I added 2 gigs of RAM and took out the 512 of RAM (FYI).

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

Kind regards, David.

Either:
- your hard drive isn't connected properly (or at all)
- it died
- the MBR (Master Boot Record) on your HD is corrupt, in which case you would need to boot from CD/DVD (preferrably with Win Setup CD and choose recovery console and use the Fixmbr or fixboot command). Last resort (meaning: loss of all data) would be deleting the partitions and logical drives and creating them again.. Maybe D2D recovery might help.

(Sorry, can't help you with the schematics)

Chaky, thanks so much for your quick response and input. I'm not sure if I'll be able to find my system disks... any option? I've moved a couple of times over the past 3 years and may have lost them somehow???

Any recommendations on how to check the hard drive is connected?

Thx again, David.