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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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If putting the BIOS in legacy mode speeds up boot (not always the case) it will ONLY affect the BIOS sequence time. Legacy mode is not optimal for modern operating systems and may slow Windows down. Gaining a few seconds during boot would have to be traded of against reduced performance the rest of the time.
What would be the point of introducing a new high performance (UEFI) BIOS if it was actually slower than legacy systems in normal operation. Starting a computer represents a very small part of its use. If you really need speed fit an SSD, faster boot AND faster use.
Just run your laptop or system by changing bios to legacy mode then your system or laptop will start faster.
Thank you. I just needed to go back to legacy mode and it is OK again.
The actual answer is about 4th one down on the 1st page and I discuss the issue a little further on the 2nd page.
Please be aware that although the problem occurs on any computer the precise method to get into the BIOS varies according to the manufacturer, there are also different menu options depending on the BIOS designer.
The fundamentals are the same. Either removing PXE as a boot option altogether (it only works on networks designed for it) or at least moving it to after the HDD boot.
