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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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gracias por la ayuda funciono de maravilla
¡Bienvenido!
(that's about the limit of my Spanish)
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
What happened to the great answer. I have this problem and was directed here by MS Helpdesk, but cannot see the actual solution.
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.
