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Im sure this has nothing to do with the HDD being fried but here goes. FYI im using an Acer T3238 Laptop and i have my recovery disc burmed into dvd.

I wanted to reformat my computer. Before i actually put my recovery disc, i used my brother’s win xp cd to help partition my HDD into one c drive.(theres of course this one important partition i cannot delete) After doing so, in goes recovery disc. The formating and file copy process went fine. The disc even ejects and the message "restore complete" appears. Upon clicking ok the system reboots. Unfortunately the following appears:

PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Check Cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM
Operating System not found

I believe the pxe thingy is due to the network boot. I’ve disabled it. The only problem now is the OS not found. I’ve place in the cd once again and it copied files(but i think its overwriting) and says ‘restore complete’ again. Yet again OS not Found.

2 words,PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks lots people =(

hmm these two threads both suggest that there’s something wrong with the connection between your motherboard and hard drive:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread6227.html

http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3576.shtml

The second one has some people doing a DIY fix, forcing the hard drive to sit in it’s bay tighter.

You might want to have a read through. Good luck!

ultimately i want to be delta force, and i want something to set me up for better succes in doing so. i would love to do either, sf or rangers, really what i want is a kick a## and take names kinda thing. from what i have read sf diversifies in more than one mission type while rangers are direct action, is this true? i guess i want to know pretty much which is more badass. i am looking for input on the subject as i am upon my re-enlistment window. if you are non-military please don’t respond to this, only current service or retired pls. thankyou for your time and as allways hoo-ahh!!!!!

Good luck with going Delta. I went to the briefing twice. first time I chickened out, as i wanted to see my kids grow up. The second time they threw me the line that Delta takes better care of family members than regular Army, so I went for it. Failed the Psych exam. Well, i was ‘ not the required material’. Too psycho? Not psycho enough? I dont know.
As far as Rangers go, they MAKE A HOLE for Delta to go in. I dont know if you were around for the Iran Hostage crisis, but while delta was busy pulling bodies out of the burning wreckage of their aircraft in Iran, Ranger danger was ALREADY THERE, and secured an airfield for Delta’s return trip.
If you want to truly, ‘go for the gusto’, go airborne, Air Assault, Ranger, then try for SF, then if you are not a psychotic basket case by then, go delta. Combat engineer is a good start. i have a friend who spent his whole career finding things that go boom. He has trained troops around the world, and has recently been in Afghanistan on an international task force finding out where all these IEDs are coming from. Hush hush stuff. He is being groomed for a slot in the CIA or something.
I retired as a lowly mechanic, which gave me the opportunity to serve in Armor, infantry, Artillery, Cav, and worked with ranger danger, too. believe it or not, but delta has its own mechanics, that is part of their sales pitch to Army Mechanics. you learn to rebuild and operate everything from weed eaters to train locomotives, and go on missions that might require a specialist grease monkey. Also, they use you as a practice ‘hostage’ or bad guy in training. so you get your a## beat on a regular basis.
If you plan on going this route, dont plan on keeping a lasting relationship with anything other than your weapon. You will spend about one month every year training in each type of environment, Desert, Arctic, tropical, and temperate climates, not to mention all kinds of little rapid deployment exercises.
One thing people might not realize. Delta occasionally comes knocking. for some reason your name comes up on a list. mine did twice. you DONT have to already be SF or anything else. just what they are looking for at the time. you DO have to go airborne and air assault IF they select you, then IF you pass that, THEN you start your ultimate badass training.
just remember that all of this is good training, and you can be the ultimate badass, but it is all for a REASON, protecting this nation, and helping others be free. dont blow things up just because you like the pretty flash.

I have Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 SP1. I have followed all advice in forums etc to make my Windows Application an executable setup file so that I may install it on another machine. However, all forums tell me to go to New Project: Setup and Deployment Projects: Setup Wizard.

My Visual Studio does not have a Setup Wizard where it is supposed to be. How come? Can anybody advise on where I can download the update/patch for this? I need to have this project implemented ASAP and this is all that is left for me to do!

************************************PLEASE HELP ME URGENTLY************************************

Thank you.

I use InnoSetup, which is a freeware solution although you can donate to the project.

With a .net app you have to make sure the dotnet framework is installed on the target PC, or the app won’t run. The installer generally puts the exe file into a folder in Program Files, creates the start menu shortcuts and often provides an uninstall routine as well.

I’m trying to load XP onto a machine with a failed DVD ROM. Have tried using different ROM and have been told that some convertor on the board is gone and my machine will never read discs anymore. This is not an issue except for the fact that I cannot load XP now. The BIOS supports usb and network boot. have tried the usb route and failed. How do I boot over a network.

visit http://netbootdisk.com/pxeboot.htm for more details

My computer came with 2. I get disconnected or booted off my network and all the other computers on the network seem to work fine. I’ve worked out that it may be because I have 2 network cards. I don’t remember ordering 2 so it might have just come with the system.

What do I do with 2? Should I just disable one or should I bridge them?

I’m a network engineer with 30 years of experience.

The simple thing for you to do is to simply disable one of them and just use one. using two or more is really an advanced thing to do but I’ll give you the basics.

**** 2 or more Network cards. *****
With two or more network cards, you can load ballance your traffic, so you in effect can have double the bandwidth of using just one, but this requires routing configurations, and OS configuration changes.

As someone else said, you can also use one as a LAN port and the other as a WAN port, effectivly using your computer as a proxy server on a network. your cable modem / DSL modem would connect to your wan port, then your computer to your internal local area network (LAN port). All other computers would then be using yours as a proxy server, or it could be configured as a router, DNS server, DHCP server, etc. etc. There are many things you can do in that configuration.

You can also use two NICs as a type of firewall. Remember that a firewall is a philosophy, not a product. Firewalls can be utilized by getting hardware , software, utilizing policies or best practices. In this case, you may have two LAN’s you connect to, and to keep them apart from each other you may be using TCP/IP on one NIC and be using IPX traffic on the other, exclusivly. As long as your machine is not forwarding traffic, you would have a basic firewall between the two, but still be able to access both of them.

I hope that helps

I have a compaq. I will admit I opend my laptop up. I wanted to see if I could switch out the wifi. Any ways I keep getting this error message

pxe-e61 media test failed
pxe-m0f

pxe-e61 media test failed

pxe-m0f media test failed

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I have a Compaq. I will admit I opened my laptop up. I wanted to see if I could switch out the wifi. Any ways I keep getting this error message

pxe-e61 media test failed
pxe-m0f

I know I can fix that. But the big problem is that my computer turns off by it self so I can’t fix that problem. It cant be my hard drive because I kept it in the case. What I think it is. I might of disconnected a wire and not put it back in properly. but I open my computer and put everything back in place and I get nothing. The fan works. Can someone tell me why it wont keep the power on, even when it is plugged in. I would hate to go to a repair shot.

In short, you broke it.

Time for a new laptop, no point in throwing money into that money pit.

I have a e-system 3087 laptop and after accessing the fa website the site crashed on me some information appeared in which i didn’t read and decided to turn my laptop off and back on now when starting my laptop up all i get is PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable and PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM can anybody help me rectify this problem.

You need to get a Windows Xp CD or your recovery discs. Insert into your laptop, then restart. Follow the directions to reinstall your operating system.

This video demonstrates the power of PXE booting, and automating Operating System installation with Red Hat Kickstart and similar technologies.

The raw footage is 13 minutes. Which is actually quite fast, but is rather boring to watch.

The video has been edited to demonstrate the little amount of interaction required to meet Oracle pre-requisites, when these pre-installation requirements have been automated.

The stuff that has been edited for time, follows.
1) The long boot process: system scanning SCSI bus and RAID controllers; basic self tests on hardware.
2) Startup of the RedHat installation: it takes a few minutes for all of the disk and hardware drivers to load.
3) Data partition formatting: the largest volume took well over a minute to complete formatting.

Presentation:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PXE Booting.

Slides and configuration examples available:
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~wolfe21
Kickstart examples available:
http://opensource.marshall.edu

Track is Nine Inch Nails, 3 Ghosts I, from the Ghosts I-IV album. Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. http://ghosts.nin.com

Duration : 0:3:59

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This video is Part 1 on a series on Windows 7 Deployment. This explains how to generate the WinPE Boot CD in Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

Duration : 0:6:48

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Marcelo Koyama of Comgas talks about adopting Windows Vista for the company’s 1,000 desktops and notebooks to keep up with demand for more advanced systems that would enhance productivity among employees. He talks about the company’s pilot as well as its approach to application compatibility challenges.

Duration : 0:9:54

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