[Eliz1220]

Hi~
I have a Presario 2195us notebook that is 18 months old. At 9 months the hard drive went out and hp installed a new one under warrenty. Recently I tried to boot up and after the red compaq logo I got the following error:

a black screen with white writing that says:

Initializing MBA.

Then that disappears and I get:

Argon PXE Boot Argon v2.01 (BIOS Included)
© copyright 2002 Argon Tech Corp.
© copyright 2000 3com Corp
All Rights Reserved

Pre-boot execution Environment PEX
© copyright 1999 Intel Corp
All Rights Reserved

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cables

Then this disappears and it says:

Operating system not found

It will stay like this for a few minutes and then automatically shut down.

I got hp to send me a new hard drive even though I was a few weeks out of warrenty, and after installing it today I got exactly the same error - no change at all! I've tried to do a system restore on both the old and new hard drives but the computer automatically ejects the CD and shuts down the computer as soon as I push the final button to start the process. I'm kind of a computer novice, but if anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

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Howdy and welcome to G2G:

It appears your BIOS is set to boot from a networked drive rather than the cd-rom or the hdd..

Suggest you boot into BIOS and make sure the first boot device is set to your cd-rom and the second boot device set to your hard-drive..

Now try it!!

Murray

[Murray S.]

Howdy and welcome to G2G:

It appears your BIOS is set to boot from a networked drive rather than the cd-rom or the hdd..

Suggest you boot into BIOS and make sure the first boot device is set to your cd-rom and the second boot device set to your hard-drive..

Now try it!!

Murray