Hello.
I've been using this laptop for more than a year, and a while ago it decided to not boot the OSs anymore, just showing a message on startup, saying, amid other things: "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable", "PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM". I add the whole picture below.
If I try to access the BIOS, it just doesn't show the hard drive as a boot option.
I have to say that, when it started happening, it just happened now and then, sometimes booting and sometimes not. Now it just doesn't seem to boot anymore (well, I don't know if I tried a hundred times, but I obviously won't). Also, before it first happened, I had to turn off the computer while windows was performing some updates, and when I eventually got it to work (or, boot), it eventually would shut down due to some weird Windows-died message, I guess hard drive-related.
What's your guess? In my humble opinion, it is a problem of the hard-drive connection, cause it would make no sense to me that the hard drive could be damaged, when the laptop is only a year or so old, and when I could still boot it when the error happened - also, it happened while travelling, so maybe with all the movement... Do you think the only way to know it is by opening it?
Thank you in advance.
Josep.
PS: it's a HDD, not SSD, just in case.
I've been using this laptop for more than a year, and a while ago it decided to not boot the OSs anymore, just showing a message on startup, saying, amid other things: "PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable", "PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM". I add the whole picture below.
If I try to access the BIOS, it just doesn't show the hard drive as a boot option.
I have to say that, when it started happening, it just happened now and then, sometimes booting and sometimes not. Now it just doesn't seem to boot anymore (well, I don't know if I tried a hundred times, but I obviously won't). Also, before it first happened, I had to turn off the computer while windows was performing some updates, and when I eventually got it to work (or, boot), it eventually would shut down due to some weird Windows-died message, I guess hard drive-related.
What's your guess? In my humble opinion, it is a problem of the hard-drive connection, cause it would make no sense to me that the hard drive could be damaged, when the laptop is only a year or so old, and when I could still boot it when the error happened - also, it happened while travelling, so maybe with all the movement... Do you think the only way to know it is by opening it?
Thank you in advance.
Josep.
PS: it's a HDD, not SSD, just in case.