I'm thinking the ol' HDD has crashed. What do you think? When starting the computer the system goes through the normal startup procedures. Then I hear an audible noise coming from the HDD sounding like arms moving, then a couple clinking noises, and this continues until the screen reads the following text. CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 13 04 B5 0D F1 GUID: 11111111 - 1111 - 1111 - -1111 - 111111111111 PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE M0F: Esiting PXE ROM. Disk boot failure, inset system disk and press enter. I've tried to restart in safe mode, but it's unresponsive. Prior to going completely dead, I was able to start in safe mode, do a system recovery, and save all the personnel files. Now it's completely inoperable. Any suggestions?

I agree. Get a live cd or floppy that has hard drive diagnostics on it. By the way the pxe is saying that your system is trying to boot to the network. I doubt you changed your bios to set network as first choice. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

jefro, Thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do in acquiring a cd. I've gathered that the error 53 is a network drive error. You're right, I didn't change any bios settings. It's the noise coming from the hdd that makes me think it's dead in the water.

There are some tools like seatools that might (only might) be able to help or at least tell you it is really dead. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

jefro, I was able to get to the bios and the boot file listed the floopy, cdrom, and then server, the hdd was greyed out and indicated not installed. Then I was able to get the chkdsk program running and it fixed some orphaned files. Everything is working well. Thanks for your assistance with my problem. Much appreciated.