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seantm
06-12-2002, 02:06 AM
Howdy folks thanks in advance for the great service your providing!

Here's my problem: I have a slightly used Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium 450. It was running fine until I tried to add a second hard drive to it.
I've given up the 2nd drive idea for now but the machine isn't the same anymore.

I put the jumper back were it was originally and set everything back in the bios (Phoenix)the same --I believe-- but now the orignal Maxtor primary hard drive can't be found at all. here's the error message I'm getting:

"Primary hard disk drive 0 not found
strike the F1 key to continue or F2 to run the setup utility"

When I hit F1 I get the following error:

"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: exiting PXE"

Well I've checked and rechecked the cable, tried a couple of different ones and no luck. It's getting power so it seems the power plug is fine...

Any suggestions? It's a good machine and I'd like to get it running... Thanks again--

Vernon Frazee
06-12-2002, 06:30 AM
Get into CMOS/BIOS Setup and make sure the Hard Drive is set as the first boot device.

Peter M
06-12-2002, 09:21 AM
You've been mislead. The PXE messages you see come from the network adapter's boot services.

regards, Peter

bluemoon
06-12-2002, 05:09 PM
Think I just learned something from you today Peter.Thank you.

BTW,how many different boards is this same problem posted??????????/I found 3 different boards so far.
Oh well,it is a free country after all.