The problem is my laptop ( Sager NP2090 ) wont detect its hard drive when booting.
Here is a little backstory. It stopped displaying anything ( blank screen ) when I booted it up so I looked into it and it turns out the graphics card it has ( Nvidia 8600 ) apparently is known for being faulty and I concluded the card had died. Since the laptop is pretty old I decided to take it apart an see if I could fix it. I removed the graphics card and decided I would try the " put it the oven method" to try and revive it. I know that sounds crazy but once again the laptop is old and I really didnt care if it didnt work, but luckily it was successful. I reinstalled the card and put everything back together and when I powered it on I finally got it to display the boot up process up until it was supposed to start the operating system.
This is were my issue is happening, every time it tries to boot, it stops and displays a PXE-61: Media Test Failure, Check Cable error. It then continues this error on a loop until I shut it down. I removed the hard drive and installed it into my desktop and it works fine, I also tried another hard drive in the laptop but it displays the same error. So I am sure it is not the hard drive. The hard drive worked fine before I took apart the laptop, it spun up and showed the blinking light, now when I boot it up the hard drive stays silent and there is no light. I booted with a linux live cd and couldnt access the hard drive that way either, it wasnt even detected.
I think it has to be a motherboard problem because the hard drive works fine outside of the laptop. When I boot with the drive installed and go into the bios it shows no drive detected. I already know that the PXE 61 error means it is trying to boot from a network, but it is only doing that because it cant detect the hard drive.
Does anyone have any advice?
Here is a little backstory. It stopped displaying anything ( blank screen ) when I booted it up so I looked into it and it turns out the graphics card it has ( Nvidia 8600 ) apparently is known for being faulty and I concluded the card had died. Since the laptop is pretty old I decided to take it apart an see if I could fix it. I removed the graphics card and decided I would try the " put it the oven method" to try and revive it. I know that sounds crazy but once again the laptop is old and I really didnt care if it didnt work, but luckily it was successful. I reinstalled the card and put everything back together and when I powered it on I finally got it to display the boot up process up until it was supposed to start the operating system.
This is were my issue is happening, every time it tries to boot, it stops and displays a PXE-61: Media Test Failure, Check Cable error. It then continues this error on a loop until I shut it down. I removed the hard drive and installed it into my desktop and it works fine, I also tried another hard drive in the laptop but it displays the same error. So I am sure it is not the hard drive. The hard drive worked fine before I took apart the laptop, it spun up and showed the blinking light, now when I boot it up the hard drive stays silent and there is no light. I booted with a linux live cd and couldnt access the hard drive that way either, it wasnt even detected.
I think it has to be a motherboard problem because the hard drive works fine outside of the laptop. When I boot with the drive installed and go into the bios it shows no drive detected. I already know that the PXE 61 error means it is trying to boot from a network, but it is only doing that because it cant detect the hard drive.
Does anyone have any advice?
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