I have also got this problem on a compaq presario 2100
have tryed all the following
making sure hdd is the 1st boot option in bios
tryed booting from a Bootable CD in cd rom
iv also noticed that bios can find the hard drive
im almost sure it's a duff harddrive but how will i be able to reinstall window if i cant boot form CD
A PXE-61 error message is most likely a faulty hard disk.
Try reseating the hard drive first and if you still get this error message again then you need to replace the hard disk.
To boot up with the CD you maybe able to press the F12 function key when you power up the laptop, this will bring up the a menu option to select an alternate boot device. If this option is not available then go into the BIOS configuration and change the bootup order and make the CD as the first boot device and the hard disk as the second device. You can can it back later.
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