Re: Techie help required pls
- From: "pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:20:55 GMT
"Old Grizzly" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My prime PC stopped booting with the disk boot failure message.
Can you say what the Full (& *Exact*) Disk Boot Failure Message was/is?
That will then point to whether it's a prob with the Hard Disk itself,
or just something wrong with the File System on it (or the Partition
Table or the Boot Sector or whatever)
windoze (especially WinXP) has several stages of the Boot Process
which can all Fail & will all give different (specific) Boot Failure
Error Messages, pointing to what the actual prob is.
& even w9x (W95/98 & Me) also depend on the same things, such as the
Partition Table & Boot Sector on the Hard Disk, so the Full & Exact
Error Message will Help locate the prob.
> I have checked the boot drive with Seagate's Diag software and its
> ok I booted into my copy of Windows XP Pro and ran repair using
> CHKDSK /r and all was well
> i reset the CMOS and set defaults in the BIOS then changed what
> i believe are the important ones the board and Pro is :
> -cHAINTECH CT-9CJS, P4 3.2 Proc. Intel Chipset
> and now instead of just the disk boot failure message i get the
> following :-
>
> Intel (R) Boot agent GE v1.2.07
> Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Intel Corporation
>
> Client MAC Addr 00 50 70 2A 26 86
> GUID FFFFFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFFFFFFFFFF
> PXE-E53: No Boot filename received
>
> PXE-MOF Exiting Intel Boot Agent
>
> DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
If it mentions a MAC (Media Access Control) Address & PXE, then that's
referring to what is sometimes called the "Pixie Boot!"
PXE stands for "Pre-Boot eXecution Environment" & is a BIOS Setting
that some Motherboards & BIOSes support, to Enable Booting from a
Network.
It lets you have a working Machine without a Hard Disk, (or with no
Operating System on the Hard Disk).
Most domestic Systems don't use that though.
But some people like it, for Systems that Run on exclusively on
a Network, or like to do it, just cos they can!
:-)
> I googled to try and find a *sensible* answer LOL but to no avail.
> Can anyone throw any light on the possible cause,
The PXE Boot Error is just showing up, cos your BIOS is Set to Boot
from a Network, if it fails to Boot from a Hard Disk (or Floppy or CD).
First thing is to check the Boot Order (Boot Device Priority) in the
BIOS, to ensure that it *is* actually trying to Boot off the Hard Disk.
Then look at the Full & Exact Error Message you get, when it tries
to Boot from the Hard Disk.
>... if not it seems a new proc and board is on the horizon :(
Shouldn't need anything like that.
If the BIOS can't find the right stuff on the Hard Disk - MBR (Master
Boot Record), Partition Table & Boot Sector & the Boot Files (or
windoze can't Find the Boot Files it needs, once the Boot Sector has
Loaded), then it's just a matter of sorting the Hard Disk out - The
Partition Table & Boot Sector & Boot Files etc.
That can be done using the Command Line Utilities available in the
WinXP Recovery Console, or by the first parts of the WinXP Install
Routine, or various 3rd Party Utilities.
It all depends, really, on what the actual Boot Error Message you are
getting is.
HTH
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pmj
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