Hello everyone,
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I have recently found that my laptop (Lenovo Z50) has begun taking up to 30 minutes to reach the boot (the time between pressing the power button and seeing something other than a black screen).
During this pre-boot state:
So far I have:
How did you get around it?
Thank you in advance 😊
{Edited to add information gathered}
I have recently found that my laptop (Lenovo Z50) has begun taking up to 30 minutes to reach the boot (the time between pressing the power button and seeing something other than a black screen).
During this pre-boot state:
- the power LED is on but there is nothing on the screen.
- Pressing the NUMLock key or CapsLock key does not toggle the corresponding LED.
- Removing the charging cable is the only thing which does create a response (a high pitched beep which I enabled in BIOS for this purpose)
So far I have:
- Ensured BIOS is updated
- Updated all other drivers
- Replaced the hard drive with an SSD (this improved the BIOS boot time, but the pre-boot still takes a very long time)
- Checked the BIOS clock and found that it is correct
- Attempted a repair with DISM and SFC (which revealed no issues)
- Using the SEATools program, ran a Short DST and Long Generic Test (which revealed no issues)
- Ran MEMTest86 (which revealed no issues)
- When running the MEMTest 86 from USB stick, the 30 minute wait did persist before it started to boot.
How did you get around it?
Thank you in advance 😊
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