Error Message

[computer11]

Hello, my 2 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (Windows Vista Home Basic) is not restarting. It died on me in the middle of use, so i thought it just overheated (which it does often), waited a few minutes and then rebooted it. But when I rebooted it the usual Dell logo popped up and everything but this black error screen popped up.

Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1 v2.1.0
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Broadcom Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
All rights reserved.
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.
Operating System not found

I kept trying to reboot it everytime, but this just kept popping up.
What can his be?

 

[ohm55]

I think its trying to network boot. Either you:
-messed up windows
-have "Network Boot" as first boot choice

Try going into your bios and making boot from the hard drive first.

 

[Calibound88]

its the hard drive.

since its starting up the motherboard, cpu and ram is fine. Windows is not starting up so there must be a break in the connection between the hard drive and motherboard or the hard drive itself.

Try to go into bios and see if it detects the hard drive.

 

[ohm55]

oh, the irony of the last line in your post XD