Black Screen - Intel Boot Manager???

[rebop]

2 month old T60, working fine. Docked, full battery, AC, no power outage. Online, same apps as always open. Went to sleep.

Awoke to a black screen saying Intel Boot Manager and a bunch of code messages with a final "Press ESC to Continue". I did. Said no devices capabale of booting found.

Shut down, rebooted fine.

No files created of any interest since my last activity. Nothing of note in Event Manager. Did an AV scan and Spybot scan. Nothing.

What happened?

What might cause a spontaneous reboot, if that is what it was? What would bring up the Intel Boot Manager? And why could it not reboot?

Has me concerned. Any input appreciated.

~Bob

[rebop]

Not ONE reply? No ideas or thoughts?

I'm amazed someone would not take the time for a little insight.

[richie23]

Well, I do not KNOW what happened, but that is what I would guess:

Your hard disc / south bridge drivers did some bad thing - which resulted in a windows BSOD and therefore in a reboot. Unfortunately, your hard drive (or the storage controller in your southbridge) was still in a broken state due to that driver failure and thus the BIOS could not boot of the HDD - tried CD/DVD (none inserted) and then tried network boot - which brought up the "Intel Boot Manager".

Beware, just a wild guess!

RichIE

Edit/PS: You should check Windows event log - if it really was a BSOD there should be an entry.

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Nothing in the Event Log and if there was a BSOD, I did not see it. I am set NOT to reboot automatically.

So, from all I ave read maybe PXE remotely tried to reboot which is why it went to LAN rather than harddrive. But I do not know. Still baffled.