My Brothers Laptop won't boot, PCI fast ethernet controller?

[PDJ]

When my brother powers on his laptop, it goes through all the various startup screens, although slower than usual. After the windows XP startup screen, the PC starts displaying the following error message continuously in an infinite loop. During the entire process the laptop is much noisier than normal, making some sort of spinning sound.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

error message:

 

 

 

For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (030326)

 

 

 

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

 

 

 

PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)

 

 

 

Copyright © 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I assume this is something i cannot fix on my own, and that it has to be shipped off for repair... I was wondering if I could recover it by simply switching off the network card in setup but i couldn't find an option to do it. Could anyone give me any information on what that error message means?

[Stephen9o3]

Hmm.. I'm pretty sure that comes up on my computer when it boots. No clue what it means really, doesn't seem to make a difference regardless. And it doesn't display it in an infinite loop, it just flashes and disapears. Other than that, I dunno =\

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: Yeah, just checked, I get the exact same message, even the numbers are identical, except I dont get the bottom Intel part, as that's probably unrelated, and right after "PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM" it says "Boot from CD:"

[zonda]

well... I don't have an answer - but if you want to try and uninstall your ethernet card go for it, theres no real harm in doing so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to your desktop >> right click 'my computer' >> properties >> 'hardware' tab >> click 'device manager' and look for your network adapters and simply right click it and say uninstall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PDJ]

well... I don't have an answer - but if you want to try and uninstall your ethernet card go for it, theres no real harm in doing so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to your desktop >> right click 'my computer' >> properties >> 'hardware' tab >> click 'device manager' and look for your network adapters and simply right click it and say uninstall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yes because you can get to device manager when the OS won't load :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i was trying to disable it in the bios but couldn't find the setting for it, i may look around for it later

[zonda]

OHHHH well sorry for trying to help mr smarty pants, but you regreted to inform me that windows wasn't starting up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I assumed it was one of those errors messages that come up when windows is started and it had an "OK" button, but just continually popped up no matter how many times you clicked OK....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want, just try removing the network card physically. Just open the case and unscrew it and pop it out, not too difficult. I hope it sparks and fry's your mobo and every component connected to it, though the odds of that happening are 1 in 10000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't expect much help from me ever again, unappreciative swine

[username388]

Your install is probably dead. That "Error message" coming up is not actually an error. Your NIC is trying to boot of another computer on your network (That's what PXE booting is).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This probably started because your boot order is set to boot from your harddrive, then PXE boot. Since it now can't boot off your harddrive, it tries to PXE boot. You are seeing this now because your computer won't boot, so it's not the cause, the computer computer not booting is the cause of this.

[nvw08]

OHHHH well sorry for trying to help mr smarty pants, but you regreted to inform me that windows wasn't starting up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I assumed it was one of those errors messages that come up when windows is started and it had an "OK" button, but just continually popped up no matter how many times you clicked OK....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want, just try removing the network card physically. Just open the case and unscrew it and pop it out, not too difficult. I hope it sparks and fry's your mobo and every component connected to it, though the odds of that happening are 1 in 10000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't expect much help from me ever again, unappreciative swine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dude, you SERIOUSLY need to chill, if you didnt notice the fact that he was saying that he couldnt boot into Windows, you obviously didnt read the tread very closely :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make sure te HDD is still the first in the boot order, (althought that shouldnt matter, it's worth a try.) I googled the problem as well, and other people are having the same problem... Try this - In BIOS->Integrated Peripherals, disable "Onboard LAN boot ROM". This might help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclamer: this is in no way verifyed information and could cause your copmuter to self destruct at any moment, and if it does I take no reponsibilty in the fixing of it. This informaion might just not work, in that case forget what I said ;).

[Antrune]

 

OHHHH well sorry for trying to help mr smarty pants, but you regreted to inform me that windows wasn't starting up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I assumed it was one of those errors messages that come up when windows is started and it had an "OK" button, but just continually popped up no matter how many times you clicked OK....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want, just try removing the network card physically. Just open the case and unscrew it and pop it out, not too difficult. I hope it sparks and fry's your mobo and every component connected to it, though the odds of that happening are 1 in 10000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't expect much help from me ever again, unappreciative swine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dude, you SERIOUSLY need to chill, if you didnt notice the fact that he was saying that he couldnt boot into Windows, you obviously didnt read the tread very closely :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok so he didnt read it properly, he still tryed to help and even took a screenshot. It didnt warrent such a reply from Pker_Dude.

[Chris]

Seriously guys, if you haven't a clue how to help. Don't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: My apologies, yet again username388 is on the ball. You go guy. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your brother's laptop is trying to boot from ethernet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go into the BIOS and change the boot order, that's probably what he or someone else has done and they've set it to boot from ethernet/network only.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set it to boot from HDD-0 or the just hardrive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: If username388 is indeed right, yeah you'll need to send it away. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seems to be hardware related, so they'd probably have to replace the hardrive. If it were software related it'd try and boot and then give you an error message or a blue screen.