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Cannot boot from usb

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May 23, 2014 1:05:05 PM

Hey, So I hate having to post a question but this is driving me insane and I can not figure it out for the life of me. Background: recently built two computers, a gaming rig for myself, and a desktop/office/home use rig for my parents. Well they were both built fine and are both currently running win 7. My dad asked if I could dual boot linux for him so he could try it out. I decided that Ubuntu was probably the best answer for him. So I went through the process of creating a bootable flash drive. When I plugged it into his computer (boot order changed and all) it loaded up and I was feeling pretty good about my self. However after maybe 20 seconds of using the "Try ubuntu w/o installing" his computer just restart. Long story short his computer will boot but restart after no more than 10 seconds. I tried the same flash drive in my gaming rig and the trial setting worked fine. I have redone the flashdrive at least 5 times now both on my computer and his and it still won't work. Please help me out here, this is immensely frustrating.

Specs:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3Pzmf

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May 23, 2014 1:12:47 PM

Make sure that the BIOS setting for USB selective suspending and any USB related power savings features are disabled. Also, how did you create the USB? I have the most success creating bootable Ubuntu disks with UNetBootin. Also, if it is a USB 3.0 flash drive, make sure it is plugged into a USB 3.0 port. USB 3.0 is supposed to be backwards compatible, but it isn't perfect.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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May 23, 2014 1:21:04 PM

Ok I will try that. It is not a usb 3.0 flash drive however i have tried it in both usb 3.0 and 2 slots, same thing. I used universal usb installer. I tried using unetbootin but it wont recognize the flash drive for some reason. I think I read somewhere that Kingston devices (The one im using) don't always play nice.


Edit: No dice. Still wont work.
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