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bregn Posts 9 Registration date Thursday June 26, 2014 Status Member Last seen July 28, 2014 - Jul 28, 2014 at 02:02 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Jul 29, 2014 at 01:00 AM
I have a standard lenovo b570 laptop. I was tired of my operating system and wanted to install a new one. So to clear the hard drive I used dban and wiped it clean. Now when I turn on my computer with the installation cd in I get an error message. I don't know if I was supposed to do anything after running dban like install something, but there were no errors when dban was running. I did change the bios so that the cd would run first or the flash drive.
The error message says a bunch of stuff then:
pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable.
Pxe-m0f: exiting pxe rom.
This error occurs whether I try to install with cd or flash drive. So then I tried doing the same thing but this time I would have a Ethernet cord plugged into my computer it now said the same junk but instead of the pxe-e61 it said: client Mac addr: then numbers and stuff then guid: with more numbers and stuff
DHCP..... Then dhcp would disappear and this appeared: PXE-E53: no boot file name received
PXE-M0F: exiting pxe rom
If anyone knows what to do to get this computer running again please let me know ASAP

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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Jul 29, 2014 at 01:00 AM
PXE E61 Media test failure.
The PXE usually mean that the computer is trying to boot from the network not the hard drive or CD drive.