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Original Title: What is this delay in starting Windows 8????
When I turn on my laptop, instead of immediately going to the start page of windows 8, my screen is black with the Dell logo, and a message to the left that says 'Start PXE over IPv4'. after a good while it then says 'FXE-E18 Server Response Timeout'. then after another while, it says 'Start PXE over IPv6'. then after another minute or more wait it says, 'FXE-E16 no offer received', and the little spinning balls start spinning and the start page finally shows up? What is this delay in 'connection (it's probably a good 3 minutes, maybe more)? What does this mean?
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Thank you for your kind words, although I think a few on here might disagree with you. Sometimes a simple 2 or 3 sentence answer is more useful than links, screen grabs and pages of information.
Having made the hard disk the 1st boot device if you ever need to boot from DVD just press the F12 key and you get a one time boot device selector, far easier than changing things in the BIOS.
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So leaving HDD connected is the real cause? The thing is that the recovery disk was getting full so I transferred the data t HDD. Is there a way to fix this without having to format windows, start from scratch, etc?
No, PXE boot is a very specific condition and is exclusively due to BIOS settings. In fact it has nothing to do with Windows (any version) or any other operating system.
For this message to come up two things have to occur. 1st the network interface has to have the function enabled and is either PXE boot or in some BIOS it is called Boot ROM.
Then 2nd Boot from LAN or PXE boot has to be in the boot device list before the normal boot device i.e. Hard Disk. If it was after the HDD then that would claim the boot before the message could come up.
I'm having same case. Could it be cause I leave USB HDD TOSHIBA connected to my p7-1439 PC from HP, have since 2013 with windows 8 which i upgraded to 8.1. Have another copy of windows 8 i got before getting new PC, didn't fit old PC.
It is a setting within the BIOS.
How you access the BIOS varies between computer manufacturers, it will be selected when the manufacturer logo or similar is on screen and can be the F2, F10 or the Del key.
There are two areas in the BIOS to consider. The network card setting will either have references to enable PXE or Boot ROM. When this is enabled then in the Boot sequence it will have the LAN available as one of the options. Placing the Hard Disk before the LAN in the sequence should mean it would never get to the PXE option anyway.
Setting the Hard Disk 1st stops booting from Optical but most motherboards now have a "one time boot menu". Pressing a different key during the BIOS phase will bring up a list of bootable devices and allow yu to select a particular one over the default option.
