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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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Hi! I have a very similñar issue, but mine never goes further than "Start PXE over IPv4'". And the problem is that pressing F2 doesn't get me to the BIOS settings, so I'm really stuck! Any idea? Thanks for your help!
Undicimichelini...are you hitting the F2 key immediately upon turning on your machine? This is when you have to do it, before you get to your 'home' page, to get to the BIOS settings page...
F2 is the key on a Dell and may be something different on your particular computer. Whichever key it is it needs to be pressed immediately after power up but not held down while switching on as this can generate a keyboard error. If it gets to the stage of reporting PXE Boot then that is too late.
A list of the major manufacturers BIOS keys can be found here although it can be a bit confusing when a manufacturer has used different options at times.
In most cases the actual setting is in the network card options. If PXE Boot is enabled on the NIC then it appears as an option in the boot order selection screen, in most cases if the NIC has it disabled it does not appear in the boot list.
Thanks for your help you both. Yes, I tried hitting the F2 key immediately and continuously. And also with F12. But the only thing I get is a bar as if sthg was being loaded (but not increasing, normally it's empty. Sometimes it doesn´t even appear) and the message F12 Boot Options in the lower right corner. But of course, nothing happens when I press F12.
Any ideas? Thanks again.
