Asus p5k-e motherboard

[crunch1_01]

I am running the orignal bios setting from 2007. My Question is how do I change it so it does not read an external drive on startup ? It seees the drive and checks the whole drive before it will finish the boot system.

 

[mosox]

Look for a first boot option in the BIOS and set that to the internal HDD. Somewhere in the boot menu - boot priority or something.

 

[crunch1_01]

Does notwork that easy. Have tried everything in bios.

 

[mosox]

You have a "Boot" menu it's between "Power" and "Tools".

 

[crunch1_01]

I know where it is, but I tried all those settings and nothing helped. that s why I was asking if I updated the bios would it help with this problem.
Thanks for the ongoing help.

 

[mosox]

No, a bios update won't help. The OS is simply checking the external HDD on startup. You can run a chckdsk on the drive and see what's up:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html
It's a Western Digital?