I have an EMACHINES Desktop that I bought from a friend but it gets a message during the boot.

Message:

COPYRIGHT (C) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation
PXE-E61: Media TEST failure, check cable
PXE-M0f: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.

Any tips? I WOULD really appreciate it.Welcome to the CH forums.

If this error appeared after successful boots then the most likely problem is a hard drive coming to the end of its life. Otherwise, if it appeared after some work was done on the internals it's possible that the hdd and/or other component on the same ide are jumpered incorrectly (both as master is one cause).

Lots of info on the WWW, see here for some ideas.

Good luckGo to BIOS. Make sure, that the boot order reads: floppy, CD, HD
Disable Boot from Network (wording is different on every machine, may say Integrated NIC, Network, PXE-xxxxxxx), if it's enabled.Thanks for the welcome and the replies, though the problem continues...

I CHANGED the hard drive and all it did was start up and go back to the screen when it turns on back and forth. It has a 120GB hard drive and CD/ROM and something Intel something on the boot bio thing.
Maybe I should take it somewhere to see if they can fix it? I didn't understand one word.You could try an inexpensive fix before resorting to paying high rates at the shop...replace the CMOS battery...



Part # CR 2032 available at any computer shop for 5 bucks.

As always when working inside the case remove all power sources and take anti-static precautions.