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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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1st off bear in mind that the laptop should still be in warranty. Lenovo are responsible for both the hardware and Windows Support, that is what is meant by OEM licenses.
The computer BIOS will have defined a boot sequence, it varies according to manufacturer but often CD-ROM drive 1st, then HDD, USB and network boot (PXE).
Each device is tried in turn so with no bootable disk in the optical drive it moves on to the next. In order to get to the last device in the list then every preceding device has to fail to respond to a request from the BIOS to accept the boot command.
Therefore for you to get a PXE boot the hard disk failed to respond. This is not the same as the disk accepting but the operating system having a problem.
I suspect you are going to have difficulty getting Lenovo to accept this on the back of one single failure but it does indicate a suspect hard drive.
Hi:
The model that I have is Dell Inspiron 3521, and have been getting the messages: >>Start PXE over IPV6, Press ESC to EXIT... PXE-E16: No offer received ... just a couple of days ago after updates. This morning it is saying >>Start PXE over IP4, Press ESC to EXIT ... I also have to wait for about 2/3 minutes for my computer to boot up to Microsoft.
Please help!!! System type: Inspiron15 (3521, late 2012)
Thank you
Read the thread near the beginning, you will find the issue fairly well covered.
Enter the BIOS setup then you have two options. Change the Boot sequence so that the NIC is after all other devices.
Change the NIC so that PXE is disabled, that stops it appearing in the boot sequence at all.
Thank you. My Dell Optiplex is now working normally again.
In my case, since my desktop CPU does not support wifi, I just unplugged my netwrok cable to enable me to boot up into Windows normally.
To solve it, I restart it and press F2 until the boot setup menu appear.
I have 3 options under the boot up menu:
They are all ticked when I checked, so I just unticked Ipv4 and Ipv6 and left UEFI be. Apply the setting and exit and then start up again.
