Re: System won't boot w/USB Drive...

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"Dave Onex" <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uXeWBOUHKHA.5956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Folks;

I have an Asus A7N8xE-Deluxe mainboard and it refuses to start/re-start if I have a USB Flash Drive plugged in or an External USB hard drive plugged in.
I have the latest BIOS installed, the latest on-board RAID bios installed etc. I've had this system for years and have gotten all the bugs out of it except this one. Up until now I've just worked around it by removing the flash drive. Now that I have a 1TB External USB drive I'd like it to be able to boot with it attached.

The specific symptom I'm seeing is that during a re-start the computer will go through POST then go through the on-board SATA Bios and then when that's done it accesses the floppy drive looking for a disk to boot. You then get the error message, remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart.

I'd love to case this issue - thanks!

Dave




Make sure your BIOS isn't set to boot from a USB device. For
normal booting, the hard drive should be first on the boot
order. It looks like it's looking for a floppy first, then a USB
boot device. It finds your external HD, but it contains no
boot files, so it tells you to remove that device so it can
access your internal HD on the reboot.

.

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