Windows Won't Boot Up
 

When I left my computer last night everything was fine and when I came down this morning I saw this message flashing across my screen:

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{For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8310/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2. 13 (020326)
Pxe-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable
Pxe-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.}

I'm running XP home edition and it doesn't even begin to load - it takes an usually long time to load from the startup screen and directly to this error message. Now I can enter the BIOS but there aren't any settings that seem to be out of the ordinary.

Intel Pentium M 1.60 GhZ
512MB DDR2 SDRAM (2x256MB)
60 gig Hard drive
Internal 802.11b/g WLAN

Any idea what's gone wrong?

my first instinct says dead hard drive, can you enter bios and see if your hard drive is listed, if it is, do you have a second computer to place this hard drive in and see if you can get some of your data off of it?

or is it a laptop with that pentium M....

never mind saw it was a Pentium M. I would look at your manufacturers website on repair. They may have a tutorial on checking for bad parts

do you have a second computer?

Do you see it struggle with the hard drive before the PXE screen above? If not, someone may have messed with your BIOS boot order settings.

God, I love this board.

I'm leaning towards the dead hard drive theory and I'll be testing it out with another later today.

Thanks.