PLEASE HELP STRANGE PXE ERROR!!!

[always7777]

its seagate

[stroyal]

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Originally Posted by always7777

but i cant use floppys or cds all it has is 3 USB ports. can i connect a CD drive through tthe USB port even though the computer wont start up?

If you got into the BIOS, the computer starts.

If the BIOS lets you BOOT from USB it will BOOT, unless there is something else wrong.

A hard drive is not necessary to BOOT a PC, in the old days we didn't even have hard drives, we ran completely on floppies.

[stroyal]

Here ya go.

Internal Downloads | Seagate


Try Seagate tools.

Edit: Hard drive not working after a drop is almost always, a dead hard drive.
It's mechanically broken probably.

There are laptops that lock the hard drive when it senses a drop, to save the drive, but I don't know anything about them.
I'm skeptical as to whether they realty work though, and I doubt you have one.

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

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Originally Posted by always7777

a few days ago i dropped my acer netbook ;[ it shut off and when it restarted i got this boot screen messag error w.e:

In tel UNDI. PXE-2.1 (build 002)
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 intel corperation

for atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller

Check cable connection...!
PXE-MOF : exiting intel PXE ROM
no bootable device -- insert boot disk

then it just kepp going over and over can someone explain to me what this means and how it might be remidied =[ i havent tried anything yet ive just stared and gotten pissy

it's trying to boot to a network using PXE, the boot order is changed, go in to the bios and set it to boot from hard drive first, and turn off the PXE boot,

[stroyal]

I saw that, but since the change took place after a drop, I suspected the HD.


always7777, did you make any changes in the BIOS to the boot order, or did it ever boot from a network?

Edit: I would think, if it did not find a network it would go to the HD, just like it skips over the Floppy or CD drive with no disk, if it is first in the boot order.

It's worth checking though.

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

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Originally Posted by stroyal

I saw that, but since the change took place after a drop, I suspected the HD.


always7777, did you make any changes in the BIOS to the boot order, or did it ever boot from a network?

Edit: I would think, if it did not find a network it would go to the HD, just like it skips over the Floppy or CD drive with no disk, if it is first in the boot order.

It's worth checking though.

your right I just set my box to boot with PXE and it just went back to hard drive,
so that must be just because he has it set to boot from other devices,

but this is a desk top, seems to me I had a laptop doing the same thing but it would not revert back to hard drive it would just show the PXE boot failed, but I could be wrong laptops are all different and mine was a dinosaur

[stroyal]

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Originally Posted by Cmptr-Gy-Dv

your right I just set my box to boot with PXE and it just went back to hard drive,
so that must be just because he has it set to boot from other devices,

but this is a desk top, seems to me I had a laptop doing the same thing but it would not revert back to hard drive it would just show the PXE boot failed, but I could be wrong laptops are all different and mine was a dinosaur

Yep, even desktops are all different.

I know when I think I have a symptom nailed as to the cause, the next time I see it, it is a completely different cause.

[always7777]

how do i take off the PXE boot or w.e i dont know how to remove things from the boot order list thing

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

you should just be able to disable the boot other devices option, or disable PXE boot

[always7777]

well i give up lol now a more pressing issue does anyone know how to format the netbooks harddrive? lol