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teddy101
February 18th, 2010, 03:10 PM
My hardrive was corrupted (was running windows(rolls eyes)) just shoved a new one in...£55 down the bog!

Anyway having burned Ubuntu to a crappy CD i put that in after commandind to Bios to boot from CD/DVD first. restarting my laptop does what laptops do. and then we get to a lovly black screen

a few lines of tx commands tell me something i dont understand......and then we get a lovely
PXE-E61: media test failure, check table
PXE-M(not sure if its an 0 or an o): exiting PXE ROM
OS not found

any clue what i should do thanks guys :)
p.s i am a nubie so treat me easy

wojox
February 18th, 2010, 03:20 PM
Are you sure it says check table and not check cable.

teddy101
February 18th, 2010, 03:27 PM
deff cable. soz to be a pain

teddy101
February 18th, 2010, 03:38 PM
at the moment im rerighting to DVD.

teddy101
February 18th, 2010, 04:06 PM
bloody ****** PC world CDs :P good old DVD s got the bugger working