disabling integrated NIC on laptop

[Wheatmaster]

have an
acer travelmate 525 TE and when i boot up it gives me this: "PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable." i already made the hard drive the first boot item and still no luck. HELP!
i've figured out that if i can disable the NIC on the laptop, the problem will stop. Problem is that no where in the bios does it let me delete it!

 

[Wheatmaster]

anyone?

 

[ai42]

Umm perhaps change the boot order to boot to hard drive before the NIC?

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: ai42
Umm perhaps change the boot order to boot to hard drive before the NIC?

order already like that

 

[Wheatmaster]

bump

 

[JBT]

If there is no option in the bios I don't think you can. I think the only option would be to disable it within windows.

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: JBT
If there is no option in the bios I don't think you can. I think the only option would be to disable it within windows.

so i would just delete the driver correct?

 

[JBT]

no there should be an option to disable it rather than uninstall it. If u uninstall it, it will ussually just try to reinstall it every start up if u uninstall. You can just go into My network properties and right click it's connection and hit disable, should do the trick.

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: JBT
no there should be an option to disable it rather than uninstall it. If u uninstall it, it will ussually just try to reinstall it every start up if u uninstall. You can just go into My network properties and right click it's connection and hit disable, should do the trick.

ok i'll try that, i should probably get this laptop one of those wireless-g network cards shouldn't i?