Windows will only launch through PXE (Bios)

[Robert Jablonski]

I got a new PC over christmas, It works fine and runs game fast enough, everything is great about it however..

There is this issue when I turn my PC on, it will load up really quickly and proceed to the Windows 10 login screen. Few seconds after it the pc disconnects the monitor (I think it disconnects), my keyboard and mouse turn off, and all im looking at is a black screen. (Asking for connection to be made).

To fix this, I simply turn the PC off, turn it back on. This then boots something called PXE?, it does some loading in text chat and loads the OS normally without a crash like before.

Intel PXE-2.1 it displays when that happens.

 

[dgingeri]

If the PXI loader starts up, that means it isn't finding the hard drive quickly enough to boot from it. It loads after the PXE boot because the hard drive becomes available after a short time.

Contact the manufacturer's support and have them help you, and make sure and back up any data you've added to it right away. You likely have a bad hard drive.

 

[SgtScream]

Is the f12 key stuck on your keyboard?

 

[Robert Jablonski]

Is the f12 key stuck on your keyboard?

No it isn't, I wish it was as simple.

 

[Paul NZ]

Disable network boot in the BIOS

 

[dgingeri]

Disable network boot in the BIOS

That would probably render the system impossible to boot.

 

[Paul NZ]

Umm no why would it? It has nothing to do with a hdd

 

[Robert Jablonski]

I think the system has "fastboot", at least that's what I think its called, I cannot seem to get into the Bios settings, leaving me quite useless at the moment...

 

[Jordan_Charlton]

I would recommend to contact the manufacturer of your PC. Maybe send your PC back and let them attempt to fix it. If not they should send you a new one.

 

[SgtScream]

Yeah I would check your boot order settings. Set your hard drive before the pxe boot.

 

[Robert Jablonski]

One thing that i want to get across is that Windows does load the first time as well, BUT it crashes a few seconds after loading the login screen. Then when I restart it does the PXE loading, and loads windows without crashing.

 

[SgtScream]

List your specs.

 

[Robert Jablonski]

AMD FX-4300 (3.8GHz)
NVIDIA 1050ti (4GB)
8GB RAM DDR3
Motherboard: MSI 760gm-p23 (fx) (MS-7641)
Windows 10
2TB HDD

 

[SgtScream]

If your computer crashes after the login screen, id be inclined to say there's something going on with your hard drive or theres some sort of software corruption. Do you see any disk errors in event viewer, specifically the system log?

 

[Robert Jablonski]

Well I tried to mess about in the Bios.

Upon stumbling on the launch options I saw that this:

1st boot device: PXE (Don't know what exactly it said but it was PXE)
2nd boot device: (My HDD)

I tried to switch them around, replace both with my HDD thinking it would fix it, however it sadly didn't. But I found out was that I could launch windows without the PXE only if I was in the bios before and quit it, then it would load Windows 10 without PXE. However one abnormal thing happened at once, I loaded it, and it did the same crash like it did, but the screen was black (not disconected) and it let out a 2-4 second beep and then it disconnected everything like before.

 

[Paul NZ]

Can you disable PXE?

 

[SgtScream]

What bios revision are you on?

 

[dgingeri]

Umm no why would it? It has nothing to do with a hdd

It has nothing directly to do with the hard drive, but this is what I see happening:

First, it boots properly from the hard drive, but after getting into the OS, the hard drive stalls, causing the reset.

After this reset, the hard drive is stalled, so the BIOS/UEFI can't boot from it, so it goes through the rest of the boot sequence, picking PXE last. It doesn't actually boot from PXE, but that shows that the hard drive wasn't ready.

After the PXE sequence goes through, the hard drive is ready again, and goes ahead and boots up. Without the PXE sequence, the drive wouldn't be ready, and the system would fail to boot entirely on the second try, forcing the OP to reset the computer to get it going agian, but then we go back to the first step, and the hard drive stalls and resets.

So, turning off PXE would render the system unbootable because the hard drive wouldn't be ready when the boot time came up.

Best bet is to contact the manufacturer to get a new hard drive. It's stalling because it is dying. Soon, it will die entirely.

 

[SgtScream]

Umm no why would it? It has nothing to do with a hdd

It has nothing directly to do with the hard drive, but this is what I see happening:

First, it boots properly from the hard drive, but after getting into the OS, the hard drive stalls, causing the reset.

After this reset, the hard drive is stalled, so the BIOS/UEFI can't boot from it, so it goes through the rest of the boot sequence, picking PXE last. It doesn't actually boot from PXE, but that shows that the hard drive wasn't ready.

After the PXE sequence goes through, the hard drive is ready again, and goes ahead and boots up. Without the PXE sequence, the drive wouldn't be ready, and the system would fail to boot entirely on the second try, forcing the OP to reset the computer to get it going agian, but then we go back to the first step, and the hard drive stalls and resets.

So, turning off PXE would render the system unbootable because the hard drive wouldn't be ready when the boot time came up.

Best bet is to contact the manufacturer to get a new hard drive. It's stalling because it is dying. Soon, it will die entirely.

I would agree, but first try plugging that hard drive into a different sata port.

 

[Robert Jablonski]

I will try to change sata ports and report back.