Hey all!

I recently bought a computer. After two months, I decided to actually play a game other than Civ2, but I ran into a problem when I tried to install a new game. All sorts of error codes popped up and when I rebooted I got a new series of error codes, ending with "System Halted". I contacted the game developer, but their tech-support said it was out of their league- and even if they could help me, they weren't authorized to.

So I began googling the error codes: the first set (without the internet connection plugged in) is PXE-E61 and PXE-MOF; the second set (after plugging in the internet cord) is PXE-E53 and PXE-M0F. All I got, though, was a bunch of websites for people more knowledgeable about computers than me.

So, this is two-fold: 1) Can someone explain this without all the IT acronyms?; 2) Can I get around this without reformatting my hard-drive?

PXE is an acronym for "Preboot Execution Environment", which has something to do with allowing the comp to boot from a network... I'm not intimately familiar with it.

Basically (I'm just making an educated guess here, may be wrong) I would say that for some reason the comp has started to try and boot from the network instead of the harddrive... the first error message is likely saying that it tried to boot from the network, but found no connection... the second likely that it sees the connection but can't find anything to load.

There will be an option in the BIOS that lets you select the devices that the comp tries to boot from, and the order in which it tries them. Either remove Network Boot from the list, or make it last. I'd suggest though that you either get a geeky-type friend to help you, or a computer shop. You can mess things up in the BIOS if you aren't careful.

Thanks Speedo!

You've confirmed everything all my googling told me. I was hoping there'd be an easy way around this that I could do, but it seems not. On the other hand, I could play with BIOS, try to solve it, and if I f*ck things up even more, get a geeky friend/computer shop to fix it, right? I mean, how bad can you mess things up with BIOS?

I mean, how bad can you mess things up with BIOS?

Well, you could make your computer catch fire.:lol:

Well the fix itself is simple, it's just a matter finding the right setting... all BIOSs are different so no one can tell you *exactly* what to do...

Depends on how confident you are in yourself...