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The laptop does not boot shell 2.31

By DiamondFX
October 1, 2013 in Operating Systems

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Posted October 1, 2013

My friend's laptop does not boot and he has the following screen:

He cannot format the system.

CPU: Ryzen 7-3700x 4.4GHz, MB: ASUS PRIME B450M-A, GPU: SAPPHIRE RX 590, RAM: 16GB Corsair 3200MHz, SSD: 480GB Kingston HDD: 2TB WD Green, CHASSIS: CoolerMaster HAF 912, PSU: CoolerMaster Thunder 700W, COOLER: Hyper 212 Black Edition

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Posted October 2, 2013

EFI shell is a built in boot option that some motherboards have. It could mean that other boot devices are set lower in the boot priority or have all failed to boot.

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