Hi community,
I am hoping that someone can help me get my laptop back to life.
I wanted to do a clean Windows 10 install on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which I have done once before without any problems. However this time when booting from the Win 10 boot USB drive nothing happened for a long time (several minutes), so I restarted and tried again, still the same. This was weird because I knew the boot USB was fine, as I had used it before for this purpose on this laptop. Next step was obviously making sure the USB device and boot files were good, so i tested on another PC and everything worked fine - now here comes the really weird part...after this I was not able to boot from the SSD (or the USB, or any other boot device) anymore, as soon as anything not related to the BIOS was booted, the screen would just be stuck at either the Lenovo logo screen or a blank screen. Boot failure also includes the Lenovo recovery option (accesible via the Novo menu)
I have tried a lot of things, but nothing seems to work:
- resetting the BIOS
- trying out any BIOS settings that would make sense in a boot context
- hard resetting the BIOS by unplugging the CMOS over a night (which worked, but didnt solve the issue)
- trying different USB boot images and formats (all working on similar PCs)
these are the facts/findings:
- BIOS seems to work fine
- boot devices are discovered in the BIOS boot manager and appear as they should (they're detected as intended)
- the boot devices tested works fine on other PCs (no issues)
- the Novo button usually works, but have stopped working a few times, but this can be resolved by unplugging the SSD, pressing the Novo again, and plugging the SSD back in (found this tip on the web)
- there have been no problems with the laptop so far - and due to the fact this happened after trying to boot a USB, and as the laptop seems fine besides the not booting part, i suspect that the issue is not really hardware based, but rather some kind of corruption of the boot system on the machine itself (I am no expert)
Some remarks:
- as I was about to do a total clean install, all critical data has already been moved. Also the warranty (ironically) just ran out (so I can experiment a bit without risk of data loss or not being able to use warranty)
- hence if there is some method to due a very hard total firmware/machine/SDD/whatever reset (besides what I have already done) that could solve this, I am interested
I all seems very weird that this happened so suddenly with all hardware seemingly ok. Getting support from Lenovo after the warranty ending, is difficult, and to be honest its also difficult to find a service center in my country (most seem to cater to corporate clients mostly and not focus at all on private individuals), so I REALLY hope there are someone wo can help me out, it will be very highly appreciated.
I am hoping that someone can help me get my laptop back to life.
I wanted to do a clean Windows 10 install on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which I have done once before without any problems. However this time when booting from the Win 10 boot USB drive nothing happened for a long time (several minutes), so I restarted and tried again, still the same. This was weird because I knew the boot USB was fine, as I had used it before for this purpose on this laptop. Next step was obviously making sure the USB device and boot files were good, so i tested on another PC and everything worked fine - now here comes the really weird part...after this I was not able to boot from the SSD (or the USB, or any other boot device) anymore, as soon as anything not related to the BIOS was booted, the screen would just be stuck at either the Lenovo logo screen or a blank screen. Boot failure also includes the Lenovo recovery option (accesible via the Novo menu)
I have tried a lot of things, but nothing seems to work:
- resetting the BIOS
- trying out any BIOS settings that would make sense in a boot context
- hard resetting the BIOS by unplugging the CMOS over a night (which worked, but didnt solve the issue)
- trying different USB boot images and formats (all working on similar PCs)
these are the facts/findings:
- BIOS seems to work fine
- boot devices are discovered in the BIOS boot manager and appear as they should (they're detected as intended)
- the boot devices tested works fine on other PCs (no issues)
- the Novo button usually works, but have stopped working a few times, but this can be resolved by unplugging the SSD, pressing the Novo again, and plugging the SSD back in (found this tip on the web)
- there have been no problems with the laptop so far - and due to the fact this happened after trying to boot a USB, and as the laptop seems fine besides the not booting part, i suspect that the issue is not really hardware based, but rather some kind of corruption of the boot system on the machine itself (I am no expert)
Some remarks:
- as I was about to do a total clean install, all critical data has already been moved. Also the warranty (ironically) just ran out (so I can experiment a bit without risk of data loss or not being able to use warranty)
- hence if there is some method to due a very hard total firmware/machine/SDD/whatever reset (besides what I have already done) that could solve this, I am interested
I all seems very weird that this happened so suddenly with all hardware seemingly ok. Getting support from Lenovo after the warranty ending, is difficult, and to be honest its also difficult to find a service center in my country (most seem to cater to corporate clients mostly and not focus at all on private individuals), so I REALLY hope there are someone wo can help me out, it will be very highly appreciated.