Toshiba laptop boot problems

[auatech]

I have 2 toshiba satalitte laptops PIII 650 & PIII 1.13 both have intermitent boot problems and try to boot from the nic boot order is floppy/cdrom then HDD. the 650 i can remove the nic on and it boots fine. Is this a firmware problem for the NIC? Bios updates don't show anything about this issue.

Thanks
NWEtech

[John Prophet]

hmm, weird..have you tried putting the IDE drive as first in the boot order?

[auatech]

Yes ide first, removing nic from boot order, gives dev 0 failed on boot and then tries nic HDD tests ok on both, Only happens when nic is in system, Can only remove the NIC from The 650.

[auatech]

Help,
This is for two different customers computers,
Thanks

[excuzzzeme]

This is due to having a PXE compliant bios.
PXE tells the NIC to look to the network for boot info on a server. No server access = No Boot.

[auatech]

Any way to disable PXE on these systems?
Weird that these systems came in the same week with the same problem. Though it might be a firmware problem.(one of the modem mfg. had this happen all stopped working on the same date)

[auatech]

Still need help. please

[John Prophet]

you dont see any options in the bios to turn network boot off? or to turn pxe off?

for instance the old dells have the option of nic on, nic off, or nic on/pxe off

[John Prophet]

what are the exact model numbers of the comps??

[auatech]

sattelite 3005-s307 and i think the other was a 2800-s201 there is an option to disable network boot it is off.

Got the 3005 to fire up again wierd that systems intermintent gotta test hdd now that it will boot from anything other that nic again.