Strange Boot Problem

Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than IDE

When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0, Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA HD as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?
--
kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than IDE

"kah" wrote in message
...
When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0, Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA HD
as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?


Try the autodetect option and see what happens

kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI
P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive,
1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot
I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows
CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of
PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than IDE

"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah


File this someplace and use it only as a last resort. It comes with no
guarantee.

Put your XP installation CD back in the drive and restart your computer.
Hit any key to boot from the CD.
When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, hit the R key to enter the Recovery
Console.
Hopefully, Windows will find your XP installation on the hard drive and list it
as 1: C:\Windows.
Enter 1 and hit Enter.
If you created a password for the Administrator account when you installed XP,
enter it now and hit the Enter key. If not, just hit the Enter key.
At the prompt, enter FIXMBR.
When asked if you want to write a new MBR enter Y and hit the Enter key.
Next, enter FIXBOOT at the prompt.
Hopefully, Windows will offer to create a new MBR on your C drive.
Enter Y and hit Enter.
Enter exit, take out the CD, and see if your computer will boot from the hard
drive.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

The drive option is set for auto detect
--
kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0, Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA HD
as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?


Try the autodetect option and see what happens

kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI
P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive,
1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot
I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows
CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of
PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than IDE

Set your Bios to defaults, generally Sata is disabled in the default setting

"kah" wrote in message
...
The drive option is set for auto detect
--
kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0,
Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA
HD
as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?


Try the autodetect option and see what happens

kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI
P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard
drive,
1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE
drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to
reboot
I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same
message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert
windows
CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed
other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind
of
PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than
IDE

Bios set to default has sata enabled. If I change boot sequence to cdrom,
hard drive, floppy and other devices disabled and have the windows cd in the
drive when booting, it will boot to windows on the heard drive after ignoring
the prompt to press any key to boot to cd. Even with sata disabled, it lists
the drives as channel 0, channel 1, etc., just as if sata was enabled. Could
this be a problem of the bios being corrupted?
--
kah


"DL" wrote:

Set your Bios to defaults, generally Sata is disabled in the default setting

"kah" wrote in message
...
The drive option is set for auto detect
--
kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0,
Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA
HD
as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?


Try the autodetect option and see what happens

kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI
P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard
drive,
1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE
drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to
reboot
I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same
message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert
windows
CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed
other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind
of
PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than
IDE

Fixed the problem by resetting hard drive jumper from Master to Cable Select.
Thanks for all the advise.
--
kah


"kah" wrote:

Bios set to default has sata enabled. If I change boot sequence to cdrom,
hard drive, floppy and other devices disabled and have the windows cd in the
drive when booting, it will boot to windows on the heard drive after ignoring
the prompt to press any key to boot to cd. Even with sata disabled, it lists
the drives as channel 0, channel 1, etc., just as if sata was enabled. Could
this be a problem of the bios being corrupted?
--
kah


"DL" wrote:

Set your Bios to defaults, generally Sata is disabled in the default setting

"kah" wrote in message
...
The drive option is set for auto detect
--
kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
When looking at the bios, it shows drives as IDE Master Channel 0,
Slave
Channel 0, etc. I am assuming that the bios has it labeled as a SATA
HD
as
opposed to an IDE HD. I do have SATA disabled. Any other ideas?


Try the autodetect option and see what happens

kah


"philo" wrote:


"kah" wrote in message
...
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI
P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard
drive,
1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE
drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to
reboot
I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same
message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert
windows
CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed
other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind
of
PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than
IDE

i have been having verry simular issues with my notebook i have a sagar
4750 yes i know its old but it works i had 2 bsd in a row right before
this happend and now im leaning towards something being wrong with my
ide controler i have tried different hd and they show up in the post and
now it just cycles through the network boot int any idea would be
helpfull if u could sent them to my email because i wont be able to get
on forms while i am at work my emails is
thanks a lot

i have been having verry simular issues with my notebook i have a
sagar 4750 yes i know its old but it works i had 2 bsd in a row right
before this happend and now im leaning towards something being wrong
with my ide controler i have tried different hd and they show up in
the post and now it just cycles through the network boot int any idea
would be helpfull if u could sent them to my email because i wont be
able to get on forms while i am at work my emails is snipped
thanks a lot



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