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Question

Lenovo G505 Will not boot in UEFI or Legacy Support

by Jan 10, 2014 11:27AM PST

My Lenovo G505 laptop running Windows 8.1 gave me error messages that say:
"EFI Network 0 for IPV6 boot failed."
"EFI Network 0 for IPV4 boot failed."
"Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed. Inset Recovery Media and Hit any key. Then Select 'Boot manager' to choose a new Boot Device or to Boot Recovery Media"

Then it goes to the boot option menu and gives me a list of the two boot options:
"EFI Network 0 for IPV4"
"EFI Network 0 for IPV6"
with no option to select the HDD despite BIOS being able to detect it.

I changed the boot mode to Legacy Support from UEFI, and this time on the boot option menu I got a choice to boot from the HDD or the ODD. When I chose to boot from the HDD I got another message saying "Check cable connection!" PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM."

I tried to boot Ubuntu from a flash drive and from a CD, but I still got the same result as when I tried booting from the HDD.

I think the problem is that my Laptop won't boot in legacy support, but when I use UEFI I only have the option of booting from the network. I have no idea how I could fix this, so any suggestions are appreciated.

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UEFI is like that.
by Former Forum moderator Jan 10, 2014 11:30AM PST

I had a Lenovo fail to boot but had to reset the BIOS back to defaults in each screen and then the HDD showed up. If you don't have a HDD show, let's hope you can put in a new HDD then restore from your recovery media and backups.
Bob

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LarJonOneI Just found a fix for this I have a Lenovo Z710
by Mar 19, 2015 11:59AM PDT

I also have a Lenovo Z710, It has a one key Recovery. Shut down you computer. hit start power button. This is following Manual, to enter BIOS Menu. As the computer starts to boot hit your one key recovery button. A small menu comes up, hit BIOS Menu, the top two items IPv4 line one,, IPv6 Line two, Windows Boot etc line three
Move line three up to line one. Done..... Fixed.

If you don't have a one key Recovery Key, Read Lenovo Manual Re: BIOS SET, BIOS MENU ETC... Hope this works as well for you as it did for me. Don't be afraid to go in BIOS Just write down every step you go. write down
first what you se on the screen. so you can reproduce what you wrote down. Good luck LarJonOne

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