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Unable To Boot Pc

#1 Cowboy4Life

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 05:36 PM

My PC is a home made one from a few years back and has never given me any problems until today. When trying to start it, it just won't go into windows. The message reads as follows:

NVIDIA Boot Agent 244.0538
PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cables
PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent.

This is a continuous loop until it tells me to enter a boot cd which I don't have.

Is there anyone out there that can help me?

#2 LiveBrianD

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Posted 17 March 2012 - 05:49 PM

In the bios, are you sure it's set to boot from the hard drive first?

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#3 mjd420nova

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 08:02 AM

C4l: What does a cold boot do? Some ptetty strange things happen when The CMOS battery fails and the unit must use a default setting. This can be perplexing as the symptoms are all unrelated. The video BIOS must load first and then it tells the CPU where to send the CPU BIOS. If that error message is the only display, then I'd have to guess that the video card is failing to initialize and not telling the CPU to start. The drives and such should still be unaffected so curing the boot fault it should return to normal. Got an old video card handy?? Try that first, size doesn't matter.

#4 alishathomaz

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Posted 21 March 2012 - 10:35 PM

Here are some useful tips::

Scan your computer with an antivirus
Apply De-fragmentation on your system
Delete all temporary files
Run disc clean up
Fix registry errors.

#5 henrywilliams

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 02:47 AM

Its not a software issue I think your graphics card is not properly installed or it may be installed properly earlier but now it needs to be re configured. Try to configure your graphics card and make sure all the BIOS devices are connected correctly and no cable is misplaced.
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#6 jjackson90

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 11:35 PM

thanks for sharing

#7 jjackson90

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Posted 16 April 2012 - 11:36 PM

thanks for sharing

#8 baries

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Posted 23 April 2012 - 11:46 PM

usually a problem of vga card, try to remove your vga card then put it back. If you still can not, just try booting via save mood, if you can go save the mood, you should re-install your own driver vga card ..

#9 Tunz

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Posted 28 April 2012 - 09:54 PM

The nvidia reference does not refer to video; it refers to an nvidia chipset. The problem here is a missing hard drive. Check your connections and look in the BIOS to see if it is detected.