Comments on: I keep getting PXE-E61 Media test failure error on laptop start up

By: Zillul Islam

Zillul Islam — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:20:31 +0000

is anyone going to reply?? what shall i do?? the problem hasnt gone away you know!

By: Zillul Islam

Zillul Islam — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:57:40 +0000

what does seatool unity do? and will the CD work even thought my laptop is messed up. Also why has my laptop suddenly said that? It was working fine before and suddenly it said that? how come? thanks\

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:23:22 +0000

@ Zillul,
If I understand correctly, your laptop still boots. Right?
You can download Seatools utility from Seagate website. Burn it on a CD and boot your laptop from this CD. After that you run Seatools and see if you get errors.

By: Zillul Islam

Zillul Islam — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:39:15 +0000

with regards to the message ‘Probably hard drive failure. Test the hard drive’. How exactly do you do this lol . im not a genius at laptop soory. so can you tell me how to do this would really help.. thank you

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:19:57 +0000

@ Zillul,
Probably hard drive failure. Test the hard drive.

By: Zillul

Zillul — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:57:25 +0000

media test failure, check cable. It then says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key. what the hell is this and how do you fix it. the laptop worked well and then i turned it on normally and suddenly it kept on saying this. I as desperate. please help me. I need help asap. and please give me advise. ps the hitting the laptop didn’t work lol

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:43:58 +0000

I was having this problem with a ACER 5100… I just went into the bios and disabled the option of booting with a lan.(Network) and the problem went away. Now it boots up no problem

By: Nigele Ingram(NATO Comp Op)

Nigele Ingram(NATO Comp Op) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:34:47 +0000

Listen to me. Do not listen to others who tell you differently. IN LABTOPS. HARD DRIVE CAN EASILY COME OUT OF IT’S SOCKET. THE HARD DRIVE IS 80% OF THE TIME ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LABTOP IN AN AREA YOU CAN UNSCREW ASND JUST SLIP IT BACK ON. IT WILL BE SMALL AND NOT HEAVY. PUSH IT BACK INTO SOCKET. MOST THE TIME THE PROBLEM IS THE SCREW FELL OFF. ALSO ANOTHER PROBLEM MIGHT BE THE ORDER OF BOOT. GO TO BIOS AND DO DEFAULT SETTINGS. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOTTTT REINSTALL YOUR HARD DRIVE!!!!

By: Pipo63

Pipo63 — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:38:17 +0000

Okay! here’s my problem with my acer laptop I never use him for two years been on the Internet. Blu-ray movies looked just looked dvd.s, DVD-RAM gebrandt, CDs gebrandt but now I have the same problem. when booting from CD I get the error message is not for DVD boot by-haven image Backtrack 5, works just fine but can not DVDs, and burn CDs, DVD-RAM, does it not, so it is on the Blu-ray/DVD emulating the blue laser is just fucked up because the Blu-ray laser just works = CD = blue and red laser Blu-ray there’s the problem. Shop for computer technician was also the same answer CD laser kaput! because in the log files is a bad CD / DVD controller.

So just a bad design manufacturers fault?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:15:49 +0000

I just bought a laptop HDD for my Acer travelmate im borrowing from my moms. When i put in the new hard drive i get the same error. I am trying to put XP pro instead of the Home version thats on already. I have looked at the boot option and I AM unable to change any type of setting regarding that. If anyone can help me i would really appreciate it.

Thanks