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Carol Houston Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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IBM R40 PXE-MOF:exiting boot agent opreating system not found?

When computer is turned on it does'nt boot up it stops on intel (r) boot agent,then Intel base then copy right (c) 1997-2002, then the Client Mac Address & then PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxy DHCP offers were received.then PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. Operating System Not Found. How do I get it to come on ?

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This appears to be an indication of a failed hard drive. During the bootup process, your computer looks for bootable (accessible) devices including your hard drive, external drives (if any) and then any other possible mediums like network attached resources. If the hard drive is not available then this would explain your situation.

  • Anonymous Apr 26, 2013

    It means Hard drive ? whether if it is Hard disk or CD/DVD ROM, kindly suggest which hard drive is failure ?

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    Charles East Apr 26, 2013

    During the boot up process the computer looks for a device to load an operating system from, based on the order configured in the BIOS settings. In most configurations, the first device will be the hard drive or CD/DVD drive. If the hard drive is not responding and there is not a bootable CD/DVD disk, then the computer will look for any remaining choices in the BIOS boot list. If none are available then the message you see will appear.
    Most computer users do not operate their computer from a CD/DVD drive. The hard drive is usually the boot drive.
    Repairing or replacing the hard drive will correct this problem.

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