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HP ZV5000 Error question?For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (0203026)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM.
This is what I get, the laptops been dropped several times, the from plastic has visible damage around teh speakers, and the one time I booted it with Linux, I touched the front volume controls and it utterly locked up, even when I restarted it completely, Any pointers on whats going on would be extremely helpful, id like to repair this bludgeoning tool of death HP calls a laptop.
Hypatia Horiato November 2007
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HI I HAVE PROBLEM ON STARTUP IT FIRST GOES TO WINDOWS SCREEN AS NORMAL THEN HP SCREEN AGAIN AS NORMAL BUT THEN GOES TO BLACK SCREEN WITH LOTS OF WHITE WRITING WHICH STARTS WINDOWS DID NOT START SUCCESSFULLY.A RECENT HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE CHANGE MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THIS THEN GIVES ABOUT FIVE OPTIONS THREE WHICH ARE RELATED TO SAFE MODE,LAST KNOWN CONFIG AND START WINDOWS NORMALLY TRIED ALL OF THESE BUT THE SAME PROCESS HAPPENS EVERY TIME JUST REPEATS ITSELF AS TIMER COUNTS DOWN TO ZERO ANY HELP WOULD BE GRATEFULL THANKS.
DARREN October 2008 |
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I own a Compaq Presario V2000, last week after cleaning the back of the case with a damp cloth on reboot I received the message on boot in relation to the Realtek PCI Fast Ethernet Controller not found and a Media test failure, check cable error. On checking the bios by pressing the f10 function key the bios settings stated the HDD was not found. I took off the back panels after removal of the battery, taking note of where the two cables that were attached to the internet modem card and inspected what could be loose. No loose cables so put the whole lot together again and the same message appeared on boot up. In a panic about loosing all my data took the laptop to the local computer shop. The manager said he would look at for me even though it late on Sunday afternoon. An hour later on it was all fixed and my hard drive was working, he said the bios had caused the problem. I also had not fully pushed the cd rom back into the socket.
One week later on the same message again appeared on boot-up. This time I took the back off the laptop removed the battery for a few seconds, replaced the back and booted up the laptop but the same error message on black screen. I set the order in the bios to start from the HDD, disabled the floppy drive and the Lan start-up option.
Rebooted but still same message appeared on boot-up. I then checked the back case, what I found was that I had not fully pushed in the sides to clip into the laptop, this would mean that the HDD would not be correctly seated. After pushing in the back case near the laptop front I rebooted and all worked perfectly.
Gerry March 2008 |
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Hello (i liked your comment about the laptop ;) )
Well, to start with, you've probably got all kinds of lose connections inside the poor laptop now. It may need to be dissasembled by somebody familiar with such things.
The fact it has been dropped a lot (even once is bad enough) means your hard drive is probably now faulty. As a guide, a hard drive (when turned on) doesn't usually like more than 200G of pressure from being bumped, and when its turned off, that goes up to about 800g (those are averages though, from technical areas on drive manufacturers sites - the actual amounts vary greatly from one drive to another.
I lightly bumped a Fujitsu 30Gb drive in a laptop last year, and it instantly killed it. i literaly could have hit it harder with a sponge stick !! That's an extreme circumstance though...
OK, on yours, the message you are seeing about PXE and stuff, is just because the laptop is trying to boot-up off a network - its not part of a complicated error message or anything bad like that. The only time a user would need to worry about PXE/Ethernet boot errors, is when they would be setting up major Ethernet terminal setups usually in offices, so you have nothing at all to be concerned about there :)
After it realises it cannot boot of Ethernet, it would usually try the floppy drive, the CD/DVD drive, any bootable USB devices, and your hard drive.
I would assume your PC then shows a message saying No operating system can be found?
The first thing to do is get into the BIOS...this varies, so google for BIOS ACCESS ZV5000, to see what key to press.
Its usually the DEL or F2 or F10 key, to be pressed rapidly during initial power on stage.
In the BIOS, look for BOOT UP options (2nd menu from the far right side), and in there, tell it to stop trying to use the PXE or ETHERNET device. And check it knows to boot off FLOPPY, then CD, and finally hard drive.
Save those new settings, restart the PC, and see what it does.
If it still fails to boot to anything useful, you can test the PC is actually working & able to boot by using a boot floppy dsc or CD/DVD.
I would also suggest finding the hard drive in the thing, and check it has not become detached inside - sometimes they work loose if not screwed together properly. If the drive makes odd noises when you power up, its 95% likely its a broken thing, so try another drive in it.
:)
Philbert November 2007 |
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