PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cables (?)

Question

Every day I've turned my laptop (Dell Studio XPS) on this week, I've gotten this error on the boot up screen. It follows with 'PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE R0M. Operating System not found.' Upon turning it off and restarting, it loads up fine, but I don't understand why it's doing this and I don't want it to get worse.  I've had AVG run system repair and nothing, I ran the pre-boot diagnostics and it said no errors, and I used the My Dell diagnostics tool, and my laptop passed. I was going to do a restore, but it said I had no previous dates to restore to. What can I do?

Philip_Yip · Answer

You have the wrong BIOS setting for your NIC. Follow the instructions here and change "enabled with PXE" to "enabled".

http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/ensure-you-have-the-correct-sata-configuration-in-the-bios-setup-for-your-configuration/onboard-lan-controller/

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cms/lib09/UT01001306/Centricity/Domain/8362/images/2PXE.jpg

Windows General

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