Lenovo T60 laptop: PXE-05 error on booting

[monlaurya]

Windows XP

I've been getting, on booting:

Initializing Intel Boot Agent GE 1.2.24
PXE-05: The LAN adapter donfiguration is corrupted or has not been initialized. The Boot Agentcannot continue.


Then , 2 beeps and:

ERROR
Expansion ROM not initialized - PCI on Motherboard
Bus:00, Device: 00, Function:00

Press <ESC> to continue


So I press escape and we go off on our merry way. Sometimes I can get online through the hard ethernet connection and sometimes I can't. Unfortunately I'm trying to upgrade my wireless router at home and I can't get a hard line connection to my cable modem in order to do the upgrade.


I've looked around online and seem to have found a solution from a different tech support group, but it's a solution that worked in January of 2007. It suggests going to Intel and downloading ProBoot, then making a bootable CD to reset the adapter. Is this still a vaild fix?


thanks

[johnwill]

I'd enter the BIOS configuration on the laptop and disable the LAN boot capability, problem solved.

[monlaurya]

nope, didn't work - unless I did something wrong, which is always possible...!

I disabled, in both the start up and network bios settings, the "pci-lan" choice. All the other choices had no reference to LAN.

I still get the error message. ???
thanks

[johnwill]

Perhaps it's time to contact Lenovo. Without seeing the machine, it's hard to know exactly what options are available. You should be able to disable boot from LAN in the BIOS.