Intel Boot Agent

[bangmon]

Hi, Hope someone can help,

My friend was having problems with his XP computer, Programs not working etc. He formatted his 160gb drive, now here lies the problem,

when he starts his computer up now, he recieves the following:

Intel Boot Agent PXE
PXE-E6: media failure check cable
PXE-M0F: exiting Intel Boot Agent
No bootable device insert boot disk and press any key


When he inserts his windows xp disk the same error comes up,

I have took his HDD out of his computer and i am able to use it on my own computer as a 2nd drive with no problems, it is formatted as NTFS

how can we get it to read his xp disk and be able to reinstall xp to it, it is his only drive,

Many thanks

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

Look in the BIOS and see if his drives are even being recognized. Try resetting the BIOS to safe defaults, save the settings and exit. See if it will pick up the drives then.

Joey
CCNA, MCSA 2003, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[BadBigBen]

Intel Boot Agent PXE
PXE-E6: media failure check cable
PXE-M0F: exiting Intel Boot Agent

this is the BIOS message saying that it attempted to boot over the NETWORK CARD (also called NIC or LAN) a bootable image...

so as mentioned, go into the BIOS and set your BOOT order accordingly... e.g. CD-ROM (could also be listed as IDE DVD/CD or similar), then HD0 (or better said the Harddrive)... and take out the LAN/NIC from the BOOT order...


Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[bangmon]

Many thanks, Have got the network card knocked off now, but still we get 'insert boot disk press any key' we no longer get the PXE errors, It doesn't let us boot from the xp disk. is there a way we can get a command prompt to let us direct it to the winxp disk setup or are we missing something else.

 

[Freestone]

Is the CD-ROM drive appearing in BIOS and appearing in the boot order (as suggested earlier by BadBigBen)?

Do you have any other bootable CD to check that the CD-ROM is not defective? If not, burn the MSDOS 6.22 ISO from here and try it:

http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/5/ms-dos-bootable-cd-images.html

If the above boots, do you have another XP CD to try?

If you can't get any CD to boot, do you have another drive to try?

If all else fails, create a boot disk from

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

that has CD-ROM support. If by booting this and you can see the XP CD, then copy the CD's I386 directory to the root of C: drive, change to the C:\i386 directory, then execute winnt /b This will perform an XP install from the hard drive. Before executing the winnt /b command, I strongly recommend you have DOS' SMARTDRV.EXE loaded otherwise you'll be there a long time waiting whilst the XP files are unpacked.

 

[bangmon]

Many thanks, problem sorted now