Hallo!

Habe folgendes Problem:

Beim Hochfahren meines Gericom-Laptops erscheint folgende Meldung:

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (c)1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.12 (010017)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE Rom.


Nach ca. 15 Minuten probieren mit Neustarts fährt er dann endlich hoch. Ich glaube, ich muss im BIOS etwas einstellen (den PXE-Boot auf disabled stellen?) Habe aber ein PhoenixBios und kann das dort nicht finden. Wer kann mir weiterhelfen? Habe auch schon versucht, die Reihenfolge im Bios zu ändern, so dass Netzwerk am Ende steht.

Gruss Patrick

Hi,

hole dir hier einmal den Treiber und installiere ihn. Vielleicht ist damit dein Problem behoben:

http://www.treiberupdate.de/treiber-dow ... load=35767

Gruß Jinxy

Habe ich auch schon gemacht. Bringt nichts. Weiß jemand was anderes?

Hi,

bevor du das Notebook runterfährst, deaktiviere doch einmal die Netzwerkkarte. Bootet es jetzt ohne Probleme?

Gruß Jinxy

Habe ich alles schon gemacht. Trotzdem danke! Ich muss bestimmt was in meinem Bios einstellen (wahrscheinlich vom Netzwerk booten deaktivieren). Bekomme das aber nicht hin. Am Rand steht, ich müsse Shift + 1 drücken, um es zu deaktivieren. Geht aber nicht. Weiß echt nicht mehr, was ich machen soll.

Hi weißnichtweiter,

dann lege dir im Gerätemanager ein zweites Hardwareprofil ohne die Netzwerkkarte an. Wie sieht es dann aus beim Booten?

Gruß Jinxy

First I must apologise for this post being in English: I only found this board through a Babelfish translation and as I've been working on a German friend's Gericom laptop - and she has the same symptoms - I thought it might be useful to post my findings here, especially if this turns out to be a common problem with these laptops.

The problem she had was the same: the laptop kept trying to do a network boot everytime it started up. I then tried booting from a Knoppix Live Linux CD, and that was fine. What was a reasonable indication of the problem was the fact that the BIOS wasn't showing the hard disk.

*But* when the Knoppix CD booted, Linux was able to mount the hard disk. So it was accessible. I then tried booting the Windows XP CD, and running the recovery console when it came up, which was fine, and ran chkdsk /p. Took an age, but it worked. I also ran the boot-sector and MBR fix commands, and they worked too. Rebooted the computer......didn't work. No hard disk. So the hard disk appears, but not in time for the computer to see it on a warm or cold boot.

As an experiment, I tried the Ultimate Boot CD (out on the Internet somewhere), and used its 'Boot from ... disk' (thinking that a delay in accessing the disk would help)....no joy. "Drive not bootable". I also ran a few of the hard disk and system tests on that CD....everything fine. Even the hard disk test showed no problems.

So I'm at an impass. I managed to get Knoppix to boot from the CD, plugged in an external USB hard drive and it's now copying everything off the internal disk. (If you do this note that Knoppix will mount the drive read-only (since it's only an evaluation OS after all). Bring up the terminal, type su, then umount /mnt/sda1, then mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1. Then you can use the Konqueror file manager to drag everything from the hda1 drive. The actual device names may vary! ...but probably not). I don't think a Windows reinstall will make any difference whatsoever because if the system can't boot from the disk, it's pretty irrelevant what's on it.

I hope this is of some help to anyone who gets the same problem with the Gericom laptops (or any other, for that matter). What the real problem is...I don't know, but in this case the laptop was becoming increasingly cranky over the last few weeks.....booting in 1 out of 3 attempts....and the fact that the hard disk is up...eventually....gives me the impression that this is a hardware fix (unless the BIOS has chosen to change itself...!)

Hope this helps (somebody)

Trystan