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    Clevo w230st trouble booting up and doesn't restart

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by byviolet, Sep 8, 2013.

  1. byviolet

    byviolet Notebook Consultant

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    I tried to start up my clevo w230st today, and I got the message:

    Checking Media Presence
    Media Present
    Start PXE over IPv4

    and this screen holds for around 2 minutes while the fan turns on full blast, then I get the sager logo. Also, when I try to restart my laptop it just hangs. What's the cause of this and how do I fix it? I read around and it seems to be BIOS related but I haven't touched the BIOS of my clevo at all, this just started happening.
     
    byviolet, Sep 8, 2013
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  2. byviolet

    byviolet Notebook Consultant

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    Okay I fixed this problem by going to bios and setting windows boot manager to the very first option, but is this the right fix or is it simply just a bandaid solution for a deeper problem?
     
    byviolet, Sep 8, 2013
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  3. smellon

    smellon Notebook Evangelist

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    That sounds like the bios was trying to boot over ethernet?

    Have you been having any other problems?
     
    smellon, Sep 8, 2013
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  4. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Windows boot manager is the UEFI boot option basically and sometimes a bios can select the wrong boot option for some reason. You just changed it to what it should be and is the proper fix.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 8, 2013
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  5. byviolet

    byviolet Notebook Consultant

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    alright thank you
     
    byviolet, Sep 8, 2013
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    Not a problem, hope you can just continue to enjoy the machine :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Sep 8, 2013
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