I have an old Toshiba Satellite A20 laptop which was so slow at working so I tried to reinstall the windows using the recovery disk provided with the product. But in the middle of the process the recovery procedure abruptly stopped and there came the following message.
For realtek RTL8139 (X) /8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet controller v2.13 (021015)
PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable
PXE- MOF exiting PXE ROM
now I cannot get it to do anything at all.
Did I kill my laptop. I can manage to disassemble the laptop and get access to the inner parts if I try. So Please advise me.
I think the reason for the processor to be so slow is the lack of RAM memory for use. It’s got only 256MB of RAM for 20GB Hard drive. The processor is an intel pentium 4 Operating system is windows xp home edition.
Any advise is greatly appreciated
The message regards PXE is stating that the BIOS can not use the hard drive as first boot device, therefore either the BIOS setting is wrong or the hard drive is toast.
I can not see that disassembling will help your situation, seems a bit extreme..
Regards Memory you need 1GB ideally to run XP SP3 well:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/lis…