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    PXE-E61 media test failure / PXE-M0F - No OS found??? - Help!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by steviejones133, Aug 10, 2010.

  1. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hi guys,

    Over the last 24 hrs, my system hhas decided to shut itself down and i have had the above messages on trying to turn it back on.

    These messages appear upon boot and sometimes it wont even boot....it just gives the same messages over and over....OS not found...check cable.

    Did a google on the codes and it come up with hard drive failure...

    Is this right?? - this system is 4 weeks old brand new!

    Any advice welcomed.
     
    steviejones133, Aug 10, 2010
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  2. nzgeek

    nzgeek Notebook Evangelist

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    PXE stands for Pre E xecution Environment, and is a technology that allows the computer to boot up from an image on the network. It's often used to load the OS on computers in corporate environments.

    You're seeing PXE errors because you're not on a network that's been set up for PXE. I would also guess that you're using WiFi and don't have a network cable plugged in. The error messages are simply letting you know why you're not able to boot using PXE, which is totally expected.

    You currently have a problem with your RAID array, which is preventing your computer from booting from hard drive. Depending on your boot order in your BIOS, you'll probably find that the computer is trying to boot from the hard drives first (and failing), and is falling back to trying to boot off the network. It's also possible that network boot has always been above hard drive boot, but because Windows starts correctly you never see them.

    Ignore the PXE error for now, and concentrate on trying to see what's wrong with your hard drives. I posted a suggestion in the other thread.
     
    nzgeek, Aug 10, 2010
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