My computer originally went down due to an unknown reason (maybe virus?). It just keep rebooting in cycles. So I tried to reformat the HD but the CDROM was working kind of funny too and couldn’t format it without a ton of errors. So I put the HD as a slave on another computer and formatted it with windows XP again and the HD works fine as the slave. I put the HD back to the originaly computer but I am getting PXE E61 media test failed and disk boot failure. When I go into BIOS it does recognize the HD. I have tried the following without any success:
1. unplug and replug all cables
2. removed jumper from HD
3. tried different boot sequence (HD first, CDROM first)
4. swapped cables with CDROM (IDE0 -> IDE1)
5. disable onboard LAN device and LAN boot ROM (I thought maybe the network card is faulty)
6. changed out RAM
I am not really a computer person but the above tries were recommended from my various web searches for similar problem and nothing has worked. I would appreciate any other suggestions anyone may have.