Comments on: When I switch the laptop on it says Realtek Fast Ethernet cable failure and says media cable test failed

By: Madhu

Madhu — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:28:03 +0000

Hi,

I have the same problem as shown above, Fast ethernet failure ,,, What should I do? is replacement of hard drive is the only solution for it? please help to sort the problem.

By: StevieKeyz

StevieKeyz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:38:03 +0000

sorry one last thing, I also remember some people actually replacing the weird copper thingie hold the HEATSINK in place of the CPU and the actually HEATSINK and adding thermal paste and they have NEVER had a problem since!

I still get a blue BSOD every now and then about the kernel but for what its worth I havn’t got the media failure since I did the previous solution i posted!

By: StevieKeyz

StevieKeyz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:34:19 +0000

O yeah I know post before this sounds “stupid” and a buncha “bull” but trust me, this fix actually does work and this problem is very common in acer laptops. and this solution DOES work. look up CPU/AMD Acer Issues, or something along those lines. So please give a chance before you throw your laptop out the window!! happy troubleshooting!

if its under warrenty i suggest you send it to them because what they do is replace the whole mobo…

By: steviekeyz

steviekeyz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:29:46 +0000

You can’ take out the CMOS jesus I hate when techies assume its a laptop CMOS Battery! especially when these batteries on most acers are, SOLDERED onto the MOBO. I’ve done more research and my own personal work on this Problem way to much. The test cable for is different for various people, but for the most part the HD is still good as i got the same exact error message with any other HD I hooked up, Open up the laptop locate the CPU chip which is near the Memory, (also double check your memory is installed correctly) take them both out and plug them both in if you have too. after that you need unscrew 2 tiny screws that piece is holding down the HEATSINK, remove the wierd copper looking thingie as thats the best descrip. i can come up with for it! now you can simply remove the HEATSINK and look at you CPU, if its all dried up you need to put new thermal paste on it, once you do that put the screws back on, not so tightly but not too loose you dont want the mobo screwing up again because the screws were plugged in tight. If that doesn’t solve it, I would suggest you try to find another CPU to test out.

thx and goodluck!

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By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:16:44 +0000

Hello folks,

I have a Toshiba Satellite M35X that was giving me SMART FAILURE messages concerning the hard drive (Hitachi Travelstar 60GB). It lasted for some time giving me the SMART FAILURE. Couldn’t do much on the machine because it wouldn’t write or save any information, but it is a secondary machine that I only needed for using the internet. Eventually, the machine just went out on me and wouldn’t start up at all. When I tried to turn it on, sometimes the power button would light up for a moment then just go dead again, sometimes it would get all the way to the Toshiba startup screen, then it would crash again.
I ended up replacing the hard drive with a 160GB Hitachi (HTS541616J9AT00). After replacing the new hard drive, I still get the exact same symptoms (i.e. the machine will not start up).

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

By: Roy Harmon

Roy Harmon — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:19:25 +0000

I have a HP DV6130us which is giving me fits. It started out as XPMC crashing. Said that it had an unmountable boot device. I decided to try to load XP Pro Corp. (Legal copy BTW) After the files and drivers are loaded, it starts the windows install. It goes for just a couple of minutes and shuts down. I have done the memtest and all is good. I have ran 4 different hard drive tests and they all show good, although when I do the HP test out of BIOS, it gives me the error #2- 07 failure. I have pulled the HDD out and stuck it in a HP DV6715 and XP will load up correctly on that one.

I have also tried to load Vista ultimate on it and it is successful (Not a legal copy, so that is not an option)

At first, I thought the HDD was bad, but after running the drive tools and it cannot find errors and Vista is able to load perfect, it seems that it is operating correctly. I then thought that it could be overheating, not the case because Vista loads just fine and stayed up for 24 hours without shutting down. I also thought that the GPU was overheating, but apparently that was not the issue either.

I have two different disks for XP pro. Both will install on a different system, so the disks are not bad. One has SP2 slipstreamed without the SATA drivers. It won’t work unless I turn off the native SATA support in BIOS. After disabling that, XP will attempt to load until the install page. The other disc, I have SP3 slipstreamed with SATA drivers embedded. I do not have to disable the SATA support for this disc to work. It makes it to the reboot and then trys to install and shuts down.

When Vista is installing, it reboots several times just like it is supposed to. It attempts to get online and get updates until Microsoft sees that it is an invalid copy. Everything functions in Vista. I can play music, games, movies, surf the internet.

This is very frustrating. I have spent 3 days surfing the net trying to see if anyone else has had an issue like this but to no avail. I have found some very useful info here and thought that this might be the best place to ask for help.

Thank you so much in advance.

By: kirby

kirby — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:55:11 +0000

I read a lot on the internet that I have to change in the bios and the problem I have is that it is not letting me change. I can change the order but I cant change the PXE boot. Also this usually just happends when i open it the first time. once it gets warmed up then i can restart or turn it off and it would be good again. please help me on how to change the bios for the toshiba satellite a65-s1064. thank you

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:57:10 +0000

Hey, I’ve also got an Acer Aspire 5100 series with this exact same problem. I’ve already replaced the hard drive but it’s still happening!

I’ve checked the boot order as directed and everything else but without any joy. Until today it would boot up after a few tries but now it’s not having any of it!

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:51 +0000

hi, i have a dell notebook and lately its been acting up. for example my itunes doesnt work anymore, mozilla would open but then it would shut down, and all my other programs would freeze and i would keep getting pop ups from different programs saying theres something wrong with it. and when i would restart the computer i’d get a black screen sometimes. i tried to reboot my computer but a black screen came up and i got nothing but FAILED. is my computer completely done???

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:58:05 +0000

Hello,
I have an acer aspire 5100 and am having a lot of the same issues as everyone else. i have the fast ethernet controller media failure screen, and just got the “blue screen of death”. my computer wouldnt turn on for awhile and i got it fixed, and then it kept on coming back to that screen again, but it will turn on with ctrl alt del. however then it will work fine for a week or so, and then it will do it again. i have no idea what to do, and now everyone is talking bad things about sending it in to acer. any ideas? please please help me!!!!