When i turn on my toshiba laptop the screen turns black with a whole bunch of letter in white that say:
PXE-E61: MEDIA TEST FAILURE, CHECK CABLE
PXE-MOP: EXITING PXE ROM
THIS PRODUCT IS COVERED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING PATENTS:
US5,307,459, US5,434,872, US5,732,094, US6,570,884, US6 115,776 AND US6,327,625
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When booting, try going to the Boot Menu by pressing F12 when you see the Toshiba logo so you can select your hard drive as your boot device. After doing so, if you still get an "Invalid System Disc" error, then your hard drive may be shot.
If your computer is working fine, then disable PXE boot in BIOS or remove from 1st boot option. This is a LAN (network) boot option. It can't find a DHCP server, that's why the media test failure is displayed. It's usually used to load an OS image from network.
For the most part not a real problem. More of a warning. Some corporate models use PXE to mass image. If there is a problem (won't boot) then it lost communications to hard drive, and you need to check BIOS for hard drive.
This indicates hard drive issues, or windows files have been corrupted. If you have a backup disk try and load windows, no change! have the hard drive tested for possible replacement.
If the sound you are referring to is a clicking sound, then it is a hard drive failure. Your
computer is trying to boot up the operating system from the hard drive,
but when it fails to access the hard drive, it tries to boot up from
other devices configured on the BIOS. Apparently, your next choice for
booting the operating system is set to the LAN card. Hence, you get the
message "PXE-E61 Media test failure", which means that the computer
tried to boot up the operating system over the network but it found out
that your network cable is not connected to your computer's network
interface card.
For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v.105 (071227) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
sounds like a driver issue try to go to toshiba's website and download the latest drivers for the NIC card.
The error PXE-E61: Media test failure usually means the hard disk has failed or the hard disk needs re-seating or the disk controller is faulty.Please click on this link and follow my instructions :-http://www.fixya.com/support/r4377704-pxe_e61_error
Hi there, you will need to go into the BIOS page (usually the Del key or an Function (F) key at the Toshiba logo). You will need to change the boot order from network/lan to the Hard Drive. Its pretty straight forward mate.
Not always the Hard drive, boot into the bios setup utility and de-select network bootfrom the boot options. If it tries to network boot first you will always get that failure.
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