Acer Aspire 5100 Error

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place to post.
I have an Acer Aspire 5100, I got it in October 2006 upgraded to Vista premium in April i bought this upgrade disc in USA (genuine) but i lost the disc and stood on the plastic casing that had the product number on and my girlfreind threw it away not knowing,
so i don't no wether to take this into PCWORLD or something incase they think its not genuine or cracked,
This is the error i recive on booting the latop,

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
^^ That bit from pxe-e61 to pxe rom keeps disapearing and reapearing,
Any advice would be VERY helpful and apriciated,
Regards,
Keenan Lee.

 

The laptop tries to boot from lan and fails, since you do not have such a setup.

If the systems continues into vista normally, there is no problem.

If it hangs there, try entering the bios and disable the "boot from lan" option if any, and set the hard disk (hdd) as the first boot device.

Good luck.

 

i just disabled "network boot"
and set sata as top of boot device (is that right)
well what happend was a black flickering screnn
any suggestions?
there is no boot from lan option

 

sounds like a hardware problem somewhere,, but just to make sure it insn't just a dead Hrad Drive try the steps below::

change the CD to the firstboot device,,, place a bootable CD in the drive

an XP or VISTA install disk,,, or your recovery disk#1

and see if it boots

later,
bigO

 

My deafauly boot list is
IDE 0
IDE 1
SATA
PCI BEV
USB HDD
USB CDROM
USB FDD
USB KEY
which ones my disc drive? USB CDROM?

 

correct USB CDROM


Put a bootable disk in (such as an XP disk or an Erocovery disk) and see if it boots.... and post back


but the SATA should be your actual HARD DISK DRIVE

bigO

 

nope it dosent work i managed to find the vista disk and tried it

 

The BIOS is obviously not seeing your drives. Enter bios, enable boot menu, then you'll be able to hit F12 during boot to reveal a boot menu...the boot menu will show you what devices it is finding, and let you choose the device. Trying to boot from a bootable CD is good advice, buy you may actually have to choose CD from the boot menu for it to work, which means enabling boot menu in the bios.

 

check your PM's

i sent you something

 

I am having the same problem as Keenan. I just replaced my hard drive and I am trying to use my backup cd's that I created when I first bought my acer aspire 5100. I enable the boot menu in the bios but the only thing showing up is the network boot. There is nothing else to choose from. How do I get it to boot from the cd???

 

Hi all, lots of helpful information here, I appreciate it. Has anyone found an answer to this, if so could you please post cause it has me at my witts end.. Thanks

 

Hi,
Same problem for me. Support repair many problems to the monitor, upgrade the BIOS and now I can't use CD-ROM drive. My PC is now formatted and I can't use it, warranty elapsed yesterday...
Anyone know how to resolve this problem? This laptop now is only an unuseful stone

 

Hi,
Try this: Press the plastic around the keyboard using one finger just below the 'windows logo' key (the key next to 'Fn'), apply generous amount of pressure. If your laptop boots correctly, you should have a faulty motherboard, if this is the case, it´s probably the ATi chip just below where you are pressing (big BGA chip) that has bad contacts to the motherboard.
Good luck.

 

thats my problem right there is there any possible way to maybe re set the bga chip? or am i screwed having to buy a MoBo that cost more than the Laptop?

thanks in advance

 

actually i took it all apart and i see that the plastic is melted around that chip is there a possible way to modify the case so that it will not fry out again since i found a motherboard for pretty cheap so i think if i maybe put weep holes in it would that make a difference or am i just being over creative ????

is any of this worth it ??????

thanks a mill

 

CZR, could you please tell me how did you open the case and where can I get a not so expensive Mainboard?