Lenovo B570 Stuck at bios screen

I have a B570 that I recieved with a cracked LCD. Upon replacing it everything powers on just fine however I cannot get into the bios. When I press F2 it just says please wait in the bottom corner but never enters the BIOS. Furthermore it will not go past the bios either. The progress bar on the bios splash screen will get about half way done then just hang. I have tried booting without the hard drive and it does the same thing. It never gets past the BIOS screen. There are no beeps or anything.

Hi theath6123,
You may want to try removing the RAM on your computer just to check if the system would beep. Also you may want to try reseating your RAM. Please exercise caution while doing this and please follow the rules listed under Chapter 7. Removing and replacing a FRU under page 45 of hardware and maintenance manual.
See if reseating the RAM allows you to go into the bios options. After that you can put in the HDD back and see if it is detected under the bios. From there you can try to boot to windows from your hard drive.
Listed below is the link for the hardware and maintenance manual:
B570 manual
Let me know if this helps.
Don

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[SOLVED] Arch won't start, uefi lenovo B570

Hi, i am trying to install arch on my lenovo B570 laptop. I downloaded the latest iso from the site and used usb universal installer to create usb install media. In the boot options of my laptop i pick the usb as the first boot device and run it. I can see the efi menu and i pick arch_x86_64, but it seems to me that gummiboot is not firing. After this i only see black screen, and the usb stops blinking. After a while (3-4 min) the lap-top restarts. In the options of my bios i can't find anything like secure boot option, i have read on the forum similar issues and someone said that this should be disabled, but i don't see any option like so. My bios is very primitive, there is only boot order to set and nothing else.
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I prepared the usb inside Lubuntu, i used gpadted to create new msdos partition table (mbr) and removed any partitions.
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Hi all,
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http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/My-lenovo-b570-hangs-on-start-up/td-p/500247
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hey Fraser67,
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ThinkPad hangs on boot - stuck at Thinkpad screen

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Thanks for this post We had 3x T400 Laptops (out of warranty) come in at the same time with the same problem, had us stumped for a while until we found this post. Exactly our problem on all 3 machines. Kind Regards,
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How to register Lenovo B570 for warranty in the UK?

Having bought a new B570 just before this new year (28th Dec 2011), I am still finding it impossible to register this laptop.
After reading a message from someone that they had a crack appear on their B570's screen, I am very concerned - that I am yet unable to register my laptop properly.
Apparantly there is a base warranty which starts from the manufacturing date for one year but we all are supposed to register and get this changed to last till one year from the date of our actual purchase. But when I try to register on-line I get transfereed between various lenovo sites and finally the registration fails.
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I have been sending emails and so on - but not getting any positive response at all.
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hey vlbaindoor,
i'm guessing that you bought the B570, from Singapore?
Do note that in the International Warranty Page >> http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-service/iws.page?
The B570 , did not list UK and therefore not eligible for International Warranty.
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