Re: Strange Boot Problem


"kah" <kah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:58F43901-38F3-4FC6-861D-F2B87675859F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80
Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB
of
DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before
installing
windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive.
Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I
receive the following message:

Boot from CD:
Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082)
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter

I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot
sequence.
I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage
appears.
If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message.

I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD
the
machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other
programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE
setting to disable in the bioas but none exists.

Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated.
--
kah

Have another look in the bios
it looks like you may be enabling booting from SATA hd rather than IDE


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