hard disk not responding?

Question

after switching on my computer it the following message appears
PXE-M0F : Exiting PXE ROM.
Rebort and select prober boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. i'm using windows XP2.
what might be the problem?

Answer 1

Unless you have been inside and messed with the drive jumpers or connections, your hard drive took a crap!

Answer 2

XP isn't the problem, but the hard drive may have failed.

PXE is the network adapter.
Usually it is set to boot from after the hard drive.
If you have recently reconfigured the BIOS, this could have been setup wrong.

But if you have just been using your computer normally and now it is not booting off the drive and giving this error, then most likely the drive has failed. Unfortunately, that also means that you probably won't be able to get your data off of it either... :(

Answer 3

It cannot find any boot device to boot from, that message is because it is trying to perform a network boot, but fails. Check to see if your hard drive it recognized in BIOS, if not, you might have a problem with it. Check to make sure the cables are plugged in, and maybe replace them.

Answer 4

As soon as you start the computer press DEL
The bios setting menu should appear.
Select ONLY Autodetect Harddisks.
Your hard disk should be selected.
Also entry regarding CDrom should appear.
Press escape
From menu save setting and exit
Press Y
Restart.

Answer 5

maybe you should go to BIOS and select where the computer should read from first CD,FLOPPY,OR HARD DRIVE and of course you should choose hard drive or the problem could be that you have set another partition active where windows is installed so you would need like a floppy disk to run FDISK to choose the right partition