PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable

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I have an OptiPlex GX1 that had a 2.1 GB hard drive in it.  I added a second hard drive with 6 GB switched the jumpers around and the system recognize it.  I proceeded with formatting the new drive I put in.  The formatting completed okay and so I tried to boot up from a Windows ME floppy disk, this is the OS I had on the system previously.  I am getting this error PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable, I need to find out what I have to do to get past this point.  The system recognizes my A-Floppy, C-EIDE, D-EIDE, E-???, and now even F-CD drive.  The CD drive was previously showing as E.  I don't need the F.

Can anyone out there help me with this issue?  I tried to check through the postings but was unable to find anything that I haven't already tried.

Any  help is appreciated.

Connie

 

I suggest you didn't search very far as there are lots of entries on this one....  In the bios, set the NIC entry to "ON (PXE off)" and remove the option of PXE boot from the boot sequence.  Make sure all IDE devices are set to cable select (hard drives, CDROM, CD-RW etc) and that only those devices you have present are set to AUTO in the bios.

What is the NIC in the BIOS?  I am having the same issue with the PXE-E61 failure.  Can someone help me with this?

The short story on this error is congratulations you have killed your hard drive and there is no way to boot from it now so Im trying to PXE boot from the Network.


Aka Hard Drive is DEAD, Not Formatted or has no boot partition active.

NIC = network interface card (ethernet port on GX1).

I have seen a number of occasions where the bios for some reason switches to PXE boot even though there's a valid hard disk set up and a bootable disk; the PXE boot can end up being selected in the bios.  I would check  - you go into the bios, and for the NIC entry select the "ON (PXE off)" setting rather than OFF or ON; and go into the boot sequence screen and make sure PXE boot is removed from the boot options.

THEN IF I GET THE MESSAGE PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable, MY HARD DISK WILL NOT WORK MORE???. and if this happened, can i recovery the files of this harddisk i aprecciate if you have any solve for my thanks

Robin Post At: 2006-10-6 2:50:50

I've just brought my pc home from the shop. New hd's installed plus a new 10 sata disc controller card. I'm getting this PXE-E61 Media Test Failure Check Cable msg as well and am totally clueless why. I am reformatting one of the new hd's that was put in (another one replaced has the new OS on it as well). Had motherboard replaced, too ... high end Intel Server board with Xeon dual processors .. had this puppy over a year and never had this kind of error and what's been suggested in changing in BIOS I don't find anything that says NIC or PXE or perhaps I'm lost on the acroynms. So, sure would appreciate some input here.

Oh, and this pc is NOT online at all .. standalone, so no net bugs.

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I just had this problem on a Dell GX280 Optiplex after a main board failure. The problem was in the system bios and I was unable to set the nic to On w/PXEOff. The solution was to reset the bios to factory default and everything fixed itself. The drive nor the cable had any problems, it was only a bios bug.

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