IBM Netfinity 4000R OS W2K Server. Drive SCSI UW 9.1 GB Installed a parallel port on a pci slot. Booted fine afterwards. Shot down and restarted 2 days later. System won't boot. The error is Intel UNDI PXE-2.0 (build 072) PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable. Fact is I want the data in this HD badly. Did ship back to IBM who replaced the mainboard and the cables and reported that the HD is still timing out. Can anybody suggest any way or form I can get these data back? I'm desperate and blamed myself for lagging in providing a backup system before this tragedy.

PXE is a network card that is capable of booting the computer, used to boot a workstation from a server. If it is trying to boot from the NIC instead of the hard drive, then perhaps you can go into the BIOS and disable the PXE booting.

This happened to me about five times on machines I was trying to build at my place of work. In windows NT,s bios you have the option to turn off the network controller or turn it on. You also have the option to turn it on on with the pxe protocol. I simply set the network card to boot with the controller set to on. What I can figure out though is why it changes itself. Five differant machines, some fresh installs some upgrades, but there working fine one day and then something clicks in to change the bios settings to pxe boot. If anyone has an explenation for this, that would be awsome. I get this only in Windows NT 4.0.. Kind Regards