Noob needs help/ PXE-E61

lunarwolf · 17 Feb 2007 at 13:51

Hi

I am trying to build my first computer and struggling a bit. I just received the parts last night from OCUK.

I have assembled the parts.

My specs:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
- Cooling: Zalman 9500LED
- Mobo: EVGA nForce 680i
- Video card: BFG 8800GTX OC 600mhz
- PSU: Seasonic M12 700W
- Memory: 2GB Corsair Dominator PC2 8500-C5
- Hard Drives: 2x150gb Western Digital RaptorX @10k
- Optical drive: Plextor 760SA (Serial ATA)
- Optical drive: Samsung SH-W183 (Serial ATA)
- Case: Lian Li VB 1100Plus
- Monitor: Dell 2407WFP
- Windows Vista Retail 32 & 64 bit (unable to install as of yet)

Then I go to BIOS, everything seems detected. Only thing I changed was multiplier from x7 to x9 to get CPU @2.4ghz.

My optical drives are connected to mobo SATA 1 & 2
My HDD are connected to mobo SATA 5 & 6

Then I get following error upon leaving BIOS:

NVIDIA BOOT AGENT 243.0537
Copyright (c) 2001-2005 NVIDIA Corporation
Copyright (c) 1997-2000 INTEL Corporation
PXE-E61: MEDIA TEST FAILURE, CHECK CABLE
PXE-M0F: EXITING NVIDIA BOOT AGENT
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Anyone have a solution?

Appreciate your help

PS I have looked on different forums but have not found an answer that works for me

Cheers

touch · 17 Feb 2007 at 13:53

I had the same error when i mixed up the jumpers on my hdds and had my storage drive as primary and os drive as secondary.

But i dont think you can do that with SATA.....so this post probably wont help you much.....

.....i'll leave now...
....bye

t31os · 17 Feb 2007 at 13:56

Would it not be best to get the system working 100% before setting OC'ing options?.... or is 2.4 default?......

Any usb pens etc... plugged in?....if so, unplug, try again.

Looks like its picking the wrong boot device from message above....

lunarwolf · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:00

I am not OCing the E6600 is normally at 2.4ghz and not 1.8ghz

lunarwolf · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:20

When I try to install VISTA: I get a screen entitled "Where do you want to install Windows?" underwhich are listed

"Disk 0 Unallocated Space 139.7GB
Disk 1 Unallocated Space 139.7GB"

the at bottom a yellow warning triangle "This computer harware may not support booting to this disk. ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

What should I do?

Cheers

elfy · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:29

if you're not raiding the drives try unplugging one so you only have the one available? if you're raid0 the drives ten it looks like vista isn't detecting the raid so might need to use a floppy disk to get it to recognise the raid (unsure about this, might be diff with vista)

t31os · 18 Feb 2007 at 12:31

Unallocated space normally means the drive isnt formatted yet. Otherwise it should say NTFS no?..