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Old 02-29-2008   #2 (permalink)
Malke


 
 

Re: A disk read error has occurred; press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart

teclive wrote:
Quote:

>
> I am running an HP Compaq Presario V6000 Notebook with a Windows Vista
> Home edition i belive
>
> When i try to turn my computer on i am getting teh
>
> A disk read error has occurred; press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart
>
> error.
>
> The system has been acting strange teh past couple of days, freezing
> up, blue screen of death, an di noticed it started after I had borrowed
> a friends camera and plugged in the USB to retrieve the pictures, it was
> after that my system started spitting out the BSOF and freezing up on
> me.
Quote:

> When i hit f12 while booting...i get this error....
>
> PXE E61 Media Test Failure, Check Cable
> PXE MOF Exiting Nvidia Boot agent
>
> (the sometimes, under the above it will show Operating system not
> found)
(various snippage)

Your hard drive has died. Contact HP for repair/replacement. When you speak
to them, order a recovery disk set, too.

Malke
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