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Unable to boot with flash drive in

Name: simonscholey
Date: July 6, 2004 at 03:35:08 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2800 512MB

Comment:

I have recently bought a flash drive (PQI USB2.0 512MB) If I leave it plugged in when I try and switch on my computer it sometimes freezes and won't continue booting until I remove the drive. The boot order is set to hard drive only so it shouldn't be looking to boot from USB. The activity light doesn't flash during this time either. This only happens intermittently. Its not the end of the world but its one of those niggly computer problems! Has anybody got any suggestions?

Reply:

aha! curiousity killed the cat! "a person who asks a question is a fool for 5 mins.... a person who does not, remains a fool for eternity..." -chinese proverb

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Name: simonscholey
Date: July 20, 2004 at 11:49:43 Pacific

Reply:

i did a bios update and it seems to have sorted it.

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