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

Hahhahaha!

Thank you John - you cased it. The solution was to turn off USB Legacy
support in the BIOS. Once that was done the system boot with the external
USB drives attached - thank you very much - that solved an annoyance that
bugged me for years. Given that I just picked up a 1TB external drive it's
become really important that the system can re-start itself without dying
when it's attached (which is always).

Can I ask you one more question? (after all, you're on a roll!)

CHKDSK does not seem to work on the external drive. I get the usual message
stating the computer needs to be re-started to do it. I re-start and it
doesn't do it.

I can do a CHKDSK on the main system drive - that works. But for some reason
the external USB drive doesn't.

Any ideas?

PS>Thanks for casing that re-start issue - that made my morning :)




"Dave Onex" <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi John;

Absolutely. The system will boot properly as long as there is no USB-based
flash drive or hard drive attached to the system. You can attach any other
type of USB based device and there won't be a problem. It's only if it's a
storage device.

I believe legacy support is turned on - I'll go into the BIOS, look for
it, and turn it off & report back. I'm certain you're on the right track
in that this should be a 'known issue' - this system has always done that
contrary to the standard BIOS settings.

I'll check it now and report back - thank you!

Dave



"John John - MVP" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dave Onex wrote:
"Ian D" <taurus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dave Onex" <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Your description of the issue makes sense but the BIOS is set to boot
HDD0 first, then CD-ROM, then Floppy.

The interesting part is, if I remove the external HD - it boots no
problem as usual. There is no BIOS setting set to boot USB.

This is a known problem with some older motherboards, disabling USB
Legacy support may fix the problem. Does the computer boot if the drive
is powered off?

John




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