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iridius · 07-07-2007, 10:32 PM

My housemate just purchased and IBM ThinkCentre, 2.8 gHz, 512mb ram, 40 gb harddrive. Upon receiving it, tried to install an OS (Win XP Pro).

Was unable to get it to boot from CD, reset the BIOS and tried again. F12'd at startup to enter the temporary boot sequence to boot from CD. Does not work. This is what displays on the screen:

Intel Base-code, PXE-2.1 (build 083)
PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel boot agent
1962: No operating system found

We have checked the following: 1) the cable to the CD-ROM, replaced with new one, not the problem 2) installed a different harddrive, also not the problem.

Does the above error apply to the cable to the harddrive, possibly? We haven't tried replacing that...

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you.

07-07-2007, 10:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
iridius Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Win XP	IBM ThinkCentre My housemate just purchased and IBM ThinkCentre, 2.8 gHz, 512mb ram, 40 gb harddrive. Upon receiving it, tried to install an OS (Win XP Pro). Was unable to get it to boot from CD, reset the BIOS and tried again. F12'd at startup to enter the temporary boot sequence to boot from CD. Does not work. This is what displays on the screen: Intel Base-code, PXE-2.1 (build 083) PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel boot agent 1962: No operating system found We have checked the following: 1) the cable to the CD-ROM, replaced with new one, not the problem 2) installed a different harddrive, also not the problem. Does the above error apply to the cable to the harddrive, possibly? We haven't tried replacing that... Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you.