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PXE-E61 media failure when i start up my computer

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The PXE-E61 failure is a failure to boot to the network card, this generally indicates a problem with the hard disk drive.

  1. Boot to the BIOS and reset the defaults
  2. Reseat the hard drive
  3. Boot to Windows CD and run CHKDSK /R on HDD
If the system will not boot to the HDD, but it is seen in BIOS, then the HDD may have an OS issue, if not detected in BIOS HDD likely has failed.

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