Hp Pavilion Usb Boot Not Working

[Jessica Wilson]

Theonly annoying thing is I cannot navigate the BIOS menu for some tweaking because the BIOS not shown on the external monitor, instead, it only shown on the broken laptop screen, and it only output to my external monitor when Windows/OS is logged-on.

Most laptops detect a closed lid with a magnet and a sensor. There is a small magnet probably somewhere on the top edge of the screen, and a sensor in the area of the body of the laptop that it would be near when closed. You can use a small refrigerator magnet placed on the sensor to trick the laptop into thinking it's always closed, while still having access to keyboard and buttons.

You say you're having problems trying to get the "boot with lid closed" method working; I just want to make sure you're actually trying to boot with the lid closed, and not pressing the power button/quickly closing the lid.

I had a this problem with a 2011 ASUS A53SV laptop which has a broken screen. The laptop was being used like a desktop with an external monitor. It had an old hard drive, and I wanted to upgrade it to an SSD.

After taking the battery out and putting it back in, I followed this by doing the following: got Ubuntu on a DVD and took the hard drive out so only Ubuntu would boot from the DVD drive (afterwards I found out that the BIOS didn't allow booting from USB), then tried pressing F8 to switch display in an HDMI and then DVI connection. Only the DVI-to- monitor connection worked for this laptop, but it was relieving to see the BIOS on the screen for the first time after spamming F2. It may be notable that the laptop motherboard was connected to the broken screen via display cable when this occurred.

Finally, I cloned the OS, Windows 7, from the old hard drive onto the new SSD and put in the new SSD. After putting in the SSD, W7 was bootable right from the start, and I was able to reinstall W7 via DVD.

Had the same problem with my HP laptop. Tried closing the lid, F4, etc, but they did't work for me. It was booting into the Windows login screen, but refused to output anything to HDMI during neither startup nor login.

I connected the HDMI cable before starting up, then repeatedly hit the ESC key during POST (right after power is turned on; this directs you to the page for selecting boot options), which somehow routed the display to the external display, and I was able to navigate into BIOS accordingly on my external display.

I tricked my laptop into thinking it had a closed lid by placing a magnetic strip along the front part (of the bottom half), and it worked! It let me enter BIOS the usual way (depending on your laptop, of course) and automatically showed it on the external monitor.

Any ideas how I could approaching debugging this issue? Or rather, what options do I have? I can get into the boot debug screen but not further than this. I can run the same USB Stick on VirtualBox. So maybe I can get the boot process to write something to the USB Stick so I can examine it later in VirtualBox? As this is a laptop serial connection is not possible. I assume the chances are slim to get this working?

Got further by now. When I restarted like 3 times I got into Haiku. Looks like the BIOS does not fully like the USB stick and failed properly reading from it the first times I tried. Seems that I needed to restart 3 times in a row with the USB stick in without letting Windows get in between. Strange behavior. The USB mouse and keyboard is not recognized yet but that might be because they are attached to the docking station. Need to experiment a bit more with this stuff.

I've been working on this HP pavilion dv2700 and it won't boot. when I access the BIOS the scree only has the date and time that can be changed. There is nothing for the hard drive or the boot sequence.

There's several possibilities here . You may have a corrupted bios , the hard drive failing would not explain the lack of bios. You can remove the hard drive and try to enter the bios.it unlikely the bios is being effected by the hard drive. You may have a bios level virus or the motherboard may be on its way out . Is there a OS on the laptop? A few options are to reset your bios by removing the bios battery if it is so equipped if not do a bios jump off the board, find the bios jump points that reset the bios or just flash the bios to a newer version or reinstall the older one. Hope this helps

I took the battery out (the small battery on the motherboard) but I don't think it reset to bios... The clock still had a date from 2014. The other Idea was to change the boot sequence by holding to f12 key. I'll try that next. Any idea to reset the bios?

You can reset the CMOS by taking all power sources from the laptop and holding down the power button for ten secs or so. That should pull all power from any capacitors and clear the clocks and ram chips. When you restart, the BIOS will update to its basic configuration and reread all the hardware. This should find the hard drive-if it doesn't? Hard drive or motherboard problem....

During POST there should be a message on what key to press to access RBSU. if the USB keyboard is unresponsive maybe someone disabled USB. You can set switch 6 of the 12 position switch to 'on' to clear all the NVRAM settings and put the sytsem back to default. Download the maintenance and service guide for more information

I do get a message to press a key to get the setup or boot menus, when I press the key (F11), the screen responds by aletering the background on the F11 prompt (so I know the keyboard and USB is working), but the boot menu doesn't appear.

My first problem was caused by a VGA to HDMI adapter. I had this server connected to an HDMI display, and for some reason, although the initial bios screens displayed normally on this display, the setup and boot menus did not display.

Hi, my guess is that other machines work fine with ipxe but this one, if that is the case, there is not much that can be done from the SDA perspective. You can try using the ipxe debug to see if at least it shows more information, a specific error or something. You can see the details about that process here:

So if you get no useful info from the iPxe debug, my next step would be using a network dongle or a docking station (if possible) as a work-around or reaching HP to see if the there is anything special that can be done on that model to fix the problem.

Thank you for the feedback! I'm working with HP and sent one of our problematic devices in to them to figure out. I'll keep everyone here updated. I'm going to keep this open until they figure it out.

We also checked that there is a newer Bios version for our 840G10 model which we will try later this week to use orginal DHCP settings with ipxe.efi again in order to have no issues with older models as well

I just went in and changed the name to snponly.efi under the ipxe.efi entry and restarted the DHCP Server service. However, it is still trying to boot through ipxe.efi. Do I have to create an entirely new entry?

No I didn't set new entry, Just modified entry and saved and restartet DHCP server service. Just to ensure. You changed settings on DHCP server which is responsible for clients you want to image right ? Asking because we have different DHCP Servers

Hmm weired. And still not working ? Did you see my comment about latest Bios driver from HP. Did you check if there are newer ones for your model ? Or did you already install latest ones ? Did you try to delete the second entry (undionly.kpxe) just for testing it it works then?

So, in order to get it to work, all I had to do was rename the ipxe.efi to snponly.efi. The problem was that I had 2 DHCP servers that weren't on HA. I was fixing one, but the settings weren't going to the other. After doing the other one, it worked! Thank you all for your help.

Before fixing F11 system recovery not working issue, you need to get some background first. F11 is a special key set by HP, Dell, or Lenovo computer manufacturer to recover system to computer default settings when your computer (PCs, notebooks, desktops) corrupted due to hardware or software failure.

To access recovery partition and recovery system with HP Backup and Recovery Manager, the built-in recovery tool for HP, turn on HP computer and immediately press the Esc key to display the Startup Menu, and then press F11 to access the HP system recovery.

However, many users report that F11 system recovery is not working, this may be caused mistaken deletion or overwriting. Also, if you upgrade Windows 7/8/8.1 to Windows 10 or download to previous system, this error will occur. At this time, you cannot boot your computer and do the system recovery. Don't worry about it! Read the content in the next part and fix this error.

2. Disconnect all peripheral devices and remove any recently added internal hardware. Afterwards, turn your computer on and press the ESC key repeatedly until you can see a Start Menu or Select boot device menu.

5. Then, in the Restore your computer to its original factory state window, you can select Back up your files first or directly Recover without backing up your files. Click OK to confirm the warning that may display later.

2. Set up language and other preferences > click Install Now > tick I don't have a product key > select the operating system > accept the license terms. Please remember to click Next every time after you set an option.

F11 is very useful when you want to factory reset your computer to its default settings, but you may not want to use it if your computer works well. Since it will delete everything on your computer, leaving a fresh version of system only. Is there any safer way to recover your computer?

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