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    Os went bad or hdd went bad?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by darkloki, Jan 12, 2012.

  1. darkloki

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    My r3 system is at the depot getting repaired due to my hdmi in not working. Now my r2 system doesn't work. Upon boot up it says

    pxe-e61:media test failure, check cable
    Pxe-m0f:exiting intel boot agent.
    Operating system not found
     
    darkloki, Jan 12, 2012
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    Ok so it's not broken and I fixed it I think.... I went into my bios based on what I read on google about the error and adjusted my boot operations so that network was on top (I only did that because it was previously on the bottom) However, I did also shutdown Intel Virtulization Technology)

    I don't know, it works so whatever... Any explanations would be great though, thanks.
     
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    your bios settings were configured to boot from network first/before the hdd.
    then after failing that, it tried to boot from another hdd/partition. not the right one apparently.
     
    xeroxide, Jan 12, 2012
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