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Anonymous Posted on Apr 04, 2011

Every time I turn on my computer the following message appears: "For PCIE Atheros Ethernet controller v1.0.0.5 Check cable connection ..! pxe-e63: error while initializing the NIC pxe-mof: exiting intel pxe rom. No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key" the model is acer aspire one, not installed anything recently, the netbook has a 1GB memory and 120GB hard drive

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It sounds like the hard disk is faulty, the machine is trying to boot via the network card as it cannot find a bootable disk. You could try removing the hard drive and reseating it but the disk could be dead.

  • bonefish2084 May 01, 2011

    Worked out excellent for me. thanks, I travel around alot, and maybe the hard drive jiggled loose. I loosened the two phillips screws on the bottom of the netbook, took off the cover, pushed the harddrive up and then turned laptop back upright and bumped it to get the harddrive to come out. I blew into the connection ports on the hard drive and where the hard drive connects to the computer to blast out any **** that might be causing a bad connection and put it back in and it works like a champ. Thank you so much. The manufacturer wanted me to send it to them and charge me $99.00. Thanks for your experience and saving me $99.00. Many thanks again.

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SOURCE: For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller... check

You didn't list your PC model or make, but it appears that you have enabled the network card to boot from it's rom chip. Turn that option off in your software or pcie Bios control.

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SOURCE: For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller...

system is trying to boot to a network, this is most likely due to the hard disk drive not being detected, or the windows operating system is missing.
First reset the BIOS defaults, see if the system detects the HDD in the bios and will now boot.

Run diagnostics on the hard disk drive, which I suspect it will fail.
If diags on the drive pass, they try reinstalling Windows. But I expect you'll be replacing the drive.

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You didn't list your PC model or make, but it appears that you have enabled the network card to boot from it's rom chip. Turn that option off in your software or pcie Bios control.
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