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PXE-E61 Media Test Failure

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Hi guys, ive recently built a computer for my uncle (specs below) and he is having a few problems with it, like he will go away and leave it for a while, and come back and the screen has gone black, and the HDD LED is flashing like crazy, and its beeping, and he has to restart.

Also, just now, he rang me up and said it wouldnt boot because he is getting the following error:

PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, Check Cable
PXE-MOF Exiting NVidia Boot Agent

Now ive googled this error, and it seems to be common to a lot of Dell PCs, and the solutions posted always seem unrelated to the problem. Like remove jumper from HDD, format reinstall, blah blah. So i was wondering if anyone here knew of an ACTUAL solution to this problem, as ive heard its a common NVidia board problem.

Surprisingly enough, my uncle was able to get back into windows after reseating the cabling to his HDD, this seems a little to fluky to have fixed the problem also.


The specs are:
Athlon 2500+ Barton Core
Soltek NV400-L64
80gb Samsung HDD
Sapphire Radeon 9200SE
512mb PC-3200 DDR

Thats about all that is relevant i think.


Anyone got any idea as to the cause of either of these 2 problems?

Thanks in advance guys.
 
Might have to replace the IDE cable.

And if the HDD is the only device on the cable..then yes you take all jumpers off of it...jumpers are only for setting master/slave when another drive is present on any HDD i've seen in about 6 years, otherwise you remove it, unless theres a missing jumper/false jumper on your drive for that purpose.

In any case you don't need to be setting master etc if theres no other dirve as this will freak windows out.

At any rate if either of these keep the problem fom happening for awhile it probably would still bea good idea to format/reinstall windows, it gets kinda pissy about HDD problems...
 
fair enough. I thought you had to set Master/Slave or whatever, and Master even if single drive to STOP windows freaking out.
 
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