I have a Gateway M675 laptop. It was stolen on Mothers Day 2009. I received my laptop back into my hands 2 days ago, long story as so how I got it back. I tird to powerup my laptop, but it would open with a paragraph stating: PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable / PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM / Operating System not found. I even tried to open it and put my operating disc in and restarted it. It went to a blue screen and had "things" listing across the bottom. Too fast for me to state, except it mentioned files and drives. Then the screen went black, but I could still hear the fan running inside. I left it alone for a while. Wasnt sure if it was "loading". I then looked up that paragraph online on my roommates puter. It said to ck the BIOS boot sequence. I went into the BIOS thru F2 and the order was fine. CD/DVD, Floppy, Hard Drive, then LAN. So, today I went to Best Buy at the Geek Squad. The guy said he would look into the back and confirm what Hard Drive I needed to purchase. I figured it must be fried. The guy opened it and said... someone stole your Hard Drive out of the puter. It is empty. Great... another set back. So, I buy a new Hard Drive, and install it. I turn it on... and I am having powerup issues still! It is intermitently turning on with a black screen and you can hear the fan running... or you turn it on, see the Gateway logo and then that PXE paragraph is displaying still. It is being turned on with the Gateway Operating Disc in the CD drive. If I open the CD drive, you can see the disc spinning. What is going on?? I am getting soooo frustrated. I know I am even lucky to have my puter back in my hands, I just want it working. TY!

SOURCE: I have a Gateway M675. I am installing a new hard

Dear,
1 Please install the operating systems in this hardisk 2. Set BIOS to boot from the New System 3. still it fails, there is an issue with boot sector of your hardisk.

SOURCE: Gateway M-6843 laptop does not recognize hard drive.

The ticking sound is known as the "click of death". After a while the bearings in the hard drive get worn down, and the read head has trouble finding the data you want. In this case the drive puts the read head back to "square one" so it can try to trace its steps back to the wanted data. this makes a click noise. Thus the "click of death". Im sorry to say you need a new hard drive, and that your data is likely inaccessible without drastic measures. One method you can try is putting the hard drive in the freezer for 10 minutes. This will stiffen the bearings and may give you a couple of minutes to grab some data. You will want to have your new drive installed and windows loaded on it so you can readily access the data through a usb to sata/ide cable, which you can get on line fairly cheap. Other options are services like OnTrack, who have a team of engineers who open drives and pull the platters and try to get your data, but you are looking at thousands of dollars just for them to try.

SOURCE: my laptop says PXE-E61 : Media

reboot your laptop , read the screenwhen it says press ? for boot menu
press (f8) for bios

press the one that says boot menu and then when it asks you where to boot choose the one that says hard drive. when that boots up and works. you need to restart your pc and press the f8 one to go into bios, then go to the boot tab, and change it to boot 1st from your hdd. somehow it got changed and it is looking somewhere else for the boot directions and its making errors

SOURCE: pxe-e61: media test failure check

Normally, your laptop should be configured to boot up from the hard drive before trying the network boot up. When the hard drive fails or is no longer available, or the boot up sequence in BIOS Setup has been changed so that the network boot is set before the hard drive, the symptom you describe fails.
I would recommend that you do the following:
1. Check BIOS Setup & make sure the boot sequence is set in the correct order (Hard Drive 0 should be before Network Boot).
2. Make sure that the hard drive is seated properly in its slot & that all connections are tight.
3. Make sure that the hard drive powers up when you turn on the laptop.

If none of this helps, then your hard drive has failed.