I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 from a from a friend that told me it just needs a new hard drive. Well after replacing the HDD (which is a whole different story) I get an error message when turning it on. This is the error message.
PXE-E53= No boot file name received
PXE-M0F: Existing PXE Rom
I have no idea what this means or what it could possible be, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edited, Jun 22nd 2009 4:03pm by CaptinXeith
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No clue on the specific errors but going off the boot error, have you installed the OS? If you're trying to install the OS, have you changed the bios to boot from the CD-Rom?
I have not installed the OS yet, but now when I set the bios to boot from the CD-ROM it doesn't do anything. The only way I can get it to respond is when it is set to boot from the network and has the network cable plugged in.
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but now when I set the bios to boot from the CD-ROM it doesn't do anything.
Be more specific, always be specific. Is the CD-Rom spinning up and not reading, is it not spinning. What exactly is it or isn't it doing?
Also, did you set the CD-Rom as the first boot source, what do you have set for the second and third (assuming you have a multiple boot location option)
I don't think you can boot from a network unless you can specify a specific location to boot from since windows files generally aren't shared over a network.
As Raolan said, make sure the CD drive is working. Ensure in your BIOS that your boot priority list has the CD drive first, and the HDD last. Furthermore, make sure you're using a bootable OS install disk...as all OS install disks are not always capable of this.
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