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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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I have not seen the UEFI BIOS but enabling PXE should be in the network card settings not in the boot options menu
I had this problem too. Mine is a relatively new Dell laptop with Windows 8 as well (December 2012). I think there was an upgrade (about a week ago) right before this started happening. I followed your advice and got into the boot options (via F2). IPv4 and IPv6 were listed as numbers 1 and 2 in the sequence with Boot Manager as number 3 and the UEFi 0S as number 4. I reordered them to make UEFi 0S as number 1 and the Boot Manager as number 2. I'm not sure how to turn off the PXE boot so I left IPv4 as number 3 and IPv6 as number 4. Worked like a charm. Boots very quickly now. Thanks!
Hi, Hairy,
You helped me too. Thanks a lot.
Alex
Hairy! You ain't no fool!!! This worked! I'm amazed!! Thanks. I have no idea how things got changed in my 'start-up', but I did what you said, and everything seems to be back to normal again. So. Thanks again!! You may be hairy, but you're no fool!! -Lorenzo
