Error message on laptop

[CTDon]

Hey guys -

I was working on a project for the fire department on my laptop last night and put it down to take a leak and came back to this message coming up over and over again.

Any idea what it means?

Thanks

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o304/dlcorne/downsize.jpg

[Don-Dad]

Your likely having hard drive issues. Your drive might be fried.

[CTDon]

shit...I knew I should have saved the project to my flash drive! :twak:

is it an expensive procedure? IT was a free laptop, so it probably is worth it, but I just can't lay out a large sum of money on this right now.

[Hockeyfan]

I have never seen an error message with a ghost image of some ugly guy on the screen. Creepy. Looks all bad. How old is that thing?

[wolfmanyoda]

I googled "pxe-e61: media test failure, check cable error" and it came up with a range of possible causes, the worst being a screwed hard drive.
Quite a few people had a loose connection to their hard drive inside the laptop.

Others were trying to boot from a network but it won't be that in your case.

First, I'd smack it. If that doesn't work I'd pop it open and check the connections but I don't know how old your laptop is, that may void the warranty.

EDIT: Wow those other guys are fast. If it was free I assume no warranty. So beat on it and then open it up.

[CTDon]

That's what she said. :icon_lol:

Okay, will do.

So beat on it and then open it up.

[Electriclime]

Looks like some kind of stalker virus. Make sure to keep your clothes on; that guy may be taking pictures of you!

Being an older laptop, you might want to pop it open and clean it out, check the connections, etc. You can get a new hard drive, but you may need an operating system. You can get a variety of Linux, such as Ubuntu, etc., for free. Some of them are similar in functionality to a Windows interface.

[CTDon]

Thanks guys. The son of a friend of ours went to computer school and is a full-on PC geek...so I'll give it to him and let him have his way with it. I trust the kid, he'll do right by me.

[Electriclime]

Thanks guys. The son of a friend of ours went to computer school and is a full-on PC geek...so I'll give it to him and let him have his way with it. I trust the kid, he'll do right by me.

Then he's prolly like me and has a large bin of spare parts from old systems and can just build you a new one :icon_razz: