Ice_Blue Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Two nights ago, I closed the lid on my laptop as I always do when I'm done for the day. The next day, the laptop would not boot. I got a black screen with this error message: "All boot options are tried. Press F4. key to recover with factory image using Recovery, or any other keys for next boot loop iteration." Pressing F4 reboots and brings me back to the same screen. It has been doing this ever since. The BIOS setup Information page shows only the DVD drive on SATA 2. SATA 1 says "Not Installed". The BIOS boot menu page has Windows Boot Manager as the only option. During hours and hours of Googling, I tried the following: - Disable Secure Boot - Set FAST BIOS to disabled - Disable AHCI - Set OS Mode Selection to all combinations of UEFI, CSM OS and UEFI + CSM - Boot from DVD - Boot from USB 2 port None of these worked, obviously, I opened the laptop and swapped the drive with a known good HGST 500GB (bootable). The BIOS sees this drive, but still nothing appears in the boot menu except Windows Boot Manager. Not even the DVD drive, which has a Windows 8.1 install DVD in it. The only thing I did was clean install Windows 8.1 about 10 days ago. Windows was re-activated, and the system worked fine until now. Laptop is: Samsung Series 7 700Z (700Z3A)http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-series-7-700z-700z3a-review I did find one post where the person had the exact problem, but no solution: Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Looked at this and saw one person saying they updated the BIOS and it caused your problem. That was on a series 5 Samsung laptop from Feb 2014. So maybe there is a BIOS fix out there and I would check to see if you have the latest. And also saw this...for a tablet and not sure of the Series 7 has secure boot. My Series 7 is at home so cannot check it... https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1dadf0b1-5c0f-4a6e-b7ff-9b9eaf4f66a9/all-boot-options-are-tried-cannot-start-computer?forum=samsungpcgeneral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I read this: Most of the times these kind of issues are related with the new "Hybrid Shutdown" feature introduced in Windows 8. Hybrid shutdown feature of Windows 8 decreases the total startup time by hibernating the kernel session instead of closing it which reduces the overall Windows loading time because resuming from hibernated system session is very less work compared to a full system initialization. But this new feature is causing problems to some computer systems and if you are also facing reboot or shutdown problems in Windows 8, you can fix it by disabling this new hybrid shutdown feature and doing a complete shutdown. http://www.askvg.com/fix-windows-8-restart-and-shutdown-problems-by-disabling-hybrid-shutdown-feature/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Motherboard may be gone. Yea, or the HD controller. Worst case. Hopefully that isnt it. Had my S7 for over 2yrs and working fine. Only bad thing that happened was a short in the power cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidosho Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Have you *fully* removed all power and left it for 10 minutes? I had a similar problem with my Clevo, removing the mains and battery, leaving it for 10 mins seemed to cure it, it's been fine since. You'd be surprised how many issues that fixes, including "battery not detected" errors, even though the machine runs off it! The mainboard always has power connected, even in standby, the chipset stays in sleep, so if it's confused this will reset it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts