IdeaPad S400 Loops at PXE Boot Screen

Hi, I am wondering if someone may have experienced and issue where there IdeaPad gets stuck at the PXE Boot screen, then reboots. I am able to see the lenovo sign for about 1 second then it goes straight to the PXE Boot screen the restarts. I have tried taking out the Battery and holding down the power 3 times for 10 Seconds and 30 Seconds on the 4th, but that didn't help. I am unable to get to the BIOS or to the Recovery. I even took the hard drive and and tried to see if it would fail at detecting the drive, but it seems to be stuck at just that screen.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

hi LenovoYute,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
You're system is booting to the LAN connection (PXE boot), this is possible that the Harddrive cannot be seen by the system that's why your system skipped the Harddrive boot and started looking for windows over the LAN connection or possible that the boot order was changed that's why your system is looking for Windows over the LAN connection first.
Your having the similar concern on this thread, Please follow the said steps there as it troubleshoots your Harddrive.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Y550-Doesn-t-open-Continuously-restarts-its...
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