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Laptop doesn't want to boot from the hard drive but network instead
Hello everyone, I'm having a strange, randomly occuring issue with my laptop.
Firstly, let me describe the boot order set in the BIOS:
Now, it was recently disassembled to bits, to give it a thorough cleaning and address minor issues like loose hinge and broken battery latch. After that, when I booted it up for the first few times - it worked just fine.HDD1
HDD2
FDD
USB
LAN
The problem appeared after I hibernated it for a few nights, each time I powered it back up, it wanted to resume windows (didn't show the usual text "press F2 to go into bios" etc.) but instead it entered Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 build 002 and attempted to boot from the network, but failed (that's okay) with an error message "Check cable connection!" followed by "Exiting Intel PXE ROM." and it repeated the process again - stuck in a loop, spamming the screen with text.
I can press the power button, del, F2, F12 and nothing happens or it'll restart (same with CTRL+ALT+DEL) now, why does it do this? I have no idea. It does do the same thing on fresh boot. The CMOS battery is fine, it keeps time and settings. After restarting a few times in various ways (usually 8!) it will boot properly... I don't have any external devices plugged in except wireless mouse.
I would really love some help with this, it's very annoying and I simply don't know what to do