Solved! Lenovo y700 boot loop help

[aquilax1]

Hello!
I have a Lenovo y700 that’s going through a boot loop- Lenovo screen on startup and restarts. Gets to the Lenovo screen again and restart.

I’ve looked up a bunch of things on the forum and here is what I have tried:
Turning off by holding power as soon as I see the Lenovo screen multiple times to trigger the repair option - turns off but does not give me the repair option.

Holding power button for 20 seconds, waiting a little and turning it back on. - back to loop, no change.

Trying to access bios by tapping F2 and Fc+F2 - cannot access bios, stays in loop

More about the laptop:
My laptop does not have any special novo- one click recovery key.

Has data on it that I do not wanna loose.

Has a 512 gb ssd and no hdd.

I considered taking the ssd out and transferring the data to another laptop, but the ssd says it’s SATA 6gbps but it has a 3 prong connector (not sure of the technical name) and doubt a regular ssd to usb connector would work - Here is a picture: https/imgur.com/cpdhy3N , https/imgur.com/SJpnQYE please advise.

If there is any other way of solving this, I would appreciate any and all help!

Thank you!

 

[hang-the-9]

That is an M.2 drive, so you would need an M.2 adapter to connect it as a secondary drive to a SATA port or a M.2 to USB adapter. From what is happening it looks like an issue with hardware, a recovery is not likely to fix anything. Try different RAM or one RAM stick at a time if you have more than one. Maybe motherboard is bad.

Another case for doing backups, if you backed up your data before the issues, there would be no worry about trying to get the drive out and working somewhere else. Trying to get data out of a failed system is the wrong time to start worrying about your data.

 

[aquilax1]

Okay, I’ve ordered an m2-usb adapter to see if it works.
Are you sure it has to do with the ram/motherboard? I’ve looked at multiple threads and was lead to believe that it has something to do with bad blocks in the os boot segment.

 

[hang-the-9]

Okay, I’ve ordered an m2-usb adapter to see if it works.
Are you sure it has to do with the ram/motherboard? I’ve looked at multiple threads and was lead to believe that it has something to do with bad blocks in the os boot segment.

Where the issue happens depends on how far the boot gets. Since the BIOS does not depend on the hard drive, the fact that you can't get to the BIOS and that the system reboots before it tries to load Windows points to something outside of the operating system setup issue. Before messing with the RAM or checking for a different motherboard you can have someone you know that knows about computers check it, if not a local tech to see what they can find. It is a rare person these days that does not have a friend, or a friend of a friend that does not work on computers in some way that can troubleshoot things.

 

[AroStewart]

I will also try to go into recovery mode and see if I could hit a successful restore point.