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[Solved] EP35-DS3L Won't boot from USB drive

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nchowdh1   11-08-2009 at 08:46:51 PM

I've been having this problem with my Gigabyte motherboard with booting USB drives. The motherboard displays a screen with some system specs on it and hangs on that screen indefinitely. This happens whether or not I tell it to boot from the drive. As long as the drive is plugged in it will always go to this screen (screen cap included). I"ve verified that the USB drive is bootable on other machines and made sure it is not the problem. This motherboard problems seems to happen with all flashdrives.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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GBs are notoriously 'picky' about USB devices in general, and pendrives in particular:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 5-problemo
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] abyte-tale

That said, if it will work at all, you need to -

on the "Integrated Peripherals" page of your BIOS:
"USB Controller" to "Enabled"
"USB 2.0 Controller" to "Enabled"
"Legacy USB storage detect" to "Enabled" - only when, on the next boot, you intend to either use a USB stick from the BIOS (CMOS parameter set storage, BIOS flashing), or boot from one - if left enabled at other times, has a propensity to trigger 'boot-loops'...

on the "Advanced BIOS Features" page of your BIOS:
one of "First/Second/Third Boot Device" set to "USB-HDD"
Alao, for a lot of systems, your flash drive needs to be formatted to FAT32 before putting boot files on it...

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8 here:
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197
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Bronze Motherboards badge bilbat   11-08-2009 at 10:09:22 PM
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GBs are notoriously 'picky' about USB devices in general, and pendrives in particular:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 5-problemo
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] abyte-tale

That said, if it will work at all, you need to -

on the "Integrated Peripherals" page of your BIOS:
"USB Controller" to "Enabled"
"USB 2.0 Controller" to "Enabled"
"Legacy USB storage detect" to "Enabled" - only when, on the next boot, you intend to either use a USB stick from the BIOS (CMOS parameter set storage, BIOS flashing), or boot from one - if left enabled at other times, has a propensity to trigger 'boot-loops'...

on the "Advanced BIOS Features" page of your BIOS:
one of "First/Second/Third Boot Device" set to "USB-HDD"
Alao, for a lot of systems, your flash drive needs to be formatted to FAT32 before putting boot files on it...

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8 here:
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

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nchowdh1   11-09-2009 at 06:16:09 PM

Thanks bilbat! Your steps on setting up the bios worked. I disabled Legacy USB storage detect and changed the boot order to have USB-HDD. Previously it read USB-FDD. I've had this problem ever since I bought my board which was over a year ago.

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