Hi all I have a bit of a problem, bear with me I am a bit of a noob with this.
I am trying to troubleshoot a system I am setting up for my sister, I have installed a sata HDD (before a IDE was installed which worked with windows xp) but when it boots up it now comes up with "PXE-E61 boot failure".
I have tried going through bios to try sort it but thats another problem, when I try to save and exit the bios it gets stuck on the Y/N confirmation, it just flashes with "Y", I can't type anything, no Y, N or enter, nothing, always have to reboot to get out of it, so in the end I can't save anything. Now I'm thinking I could give flashing the bios a try, do you think I could do it through usb stick without needing to touch the bios settings? or would I need a floppy disc?
I'm not sure if its got anything to do with it but the pc hadnt been used for a year so the cmos battery was flat and I had the "cmos checksum error defaults loaded" error. It is now replaced though and the error doesn't come anymore.
motherboard is foxconn 865A01-PE-6EKRS
sata HDD is 160GB Western Digital Caviar WD1600
DVD drive is IDE
Would anyone have any other suggestions I could do?
Help would be apreciated.
I am trying to troubleshoot a system I am setting up for my sister, I have installed a sata HDD (before a IDE was installed which worked with windows xp) but when it boots up it now comes up with "PXE-E61 boot failure".
I have tried going through bios to try sort it but thats another problem, when I try to save and exit the bios it gets stuck on the Y/N confirmation, it just flashes with "Y", I can't type anything, no Y, N or enter, nothing, always have to reboot to get out of it, so in the end I can't save anything. Now I'm thinking I could give flashing the bios a try, do you think I could do it through usb stick without needing to touch the bios settings? or would I need a floppy disc?
I'm not sure if its got anything to do with it but the pc hadnt been used for a year so the cmos battery was flat and I had the "cmos checksum error defaults loaded" error. It is now replaced though and the error doesn't come anymore.
motherboard is foxconn 865A01-PE-6EKRS
sata HDD is 160GB Western Digital Caviar WD1600
DVD drive is IDE
Would anyone have any other suggestions I could do?
Help would be apreciated.
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