Another Problem

[IanP]

Hi,

Im having a problem with my computer, AGAIN!

The bios is recognising my hard-drive, capacity heads etc,
but its not booting from it, i keep getting this error:
"PXE-E61 - Media Test failure, check cable" I've tried a different IDE cable...so all i can think of is a bad hard-drive but this error has happened before and i just fiddled with the IDE cable and it worked again but no joy this time so resulted in changing the IDE cable but still no joy!

Suggestions please?

 

[Nojoy]

Check the pins on the HDD. I had that happen to me once and it was a pin that was bent so flat that the cable went "in" and looked fine. Only after taking the HDD out and really looking at it did I see it was a bent pin. I was lucky to, as all I did was slowly bend it back and then CAREFULLY put the ribbon cable on and it worked fine.

 

[IanP]

Hmmm....i'll try i have to admit that two pins look like they have gone into/sunk it to the hard-drive if you follow my drift.

 

[IanP]

Well i've bent the pins back into place, but it still doesn't work

 

[sPlAtOiD]

Try the other IDE slot.

 

[IanP]

Done that