In some cases the automatic BIOS recovery fails because of corrupted CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) data.

Follow the prompts to restart your computer. If the issue persists, follow next steps.

Use the arrow keys to select Yes, then press Enter when asked Exit Saving Changes?.

On the BIOS Setup screen, press F9 to select and load the BIOS Setup Default settings.

Press the Power button to start the computer and repeatedly press the F10 key to enter the BIOS setup menu.

Turn off the computer and wait five seconds.

(do not skip any troubleshooting steps even if you feel steps are repeating)

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If it works with either (or or and) scan_delay and scanfor, then reset the timeout to -1 to automatically and immediately boot to the first found item.

I would recommend setting the timeout from -1 to 5 as well just so you can ensure all is working. So while it’s initializing, it’s also expecting to find the drives (which may not be ready yet). 0 means don’t wait for any time to start looking for boot devices. I would recommend adding a 5 second delay here as this is likely what’s hanging the initialization. The next change will likely be the scan_delay option. Scanfor netboot,internal to possibly scanfor netboot,hdbios,internal. Particularly of interest, I believe you would want to change scanfor line from: This post kind of describes what things to look for.

I think this only because I believe “new” versions of refind add functionality that did not exist with the older versions. Recommend looking at the configuration file for refind and seeing if making changes within the file helps out even with newer refind versions.

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