I've been here once before with this motherboard/BIOS issue, and it was partially solved by a fine member here.
My system, before his suggestion, would hang on restarts causing me to ALWAYS turn the computer off in order to start the computer into Window 7 x64.
His suggestion, to disable the legacy floppy, did work as the computer did eventually restart.
Now, however, I've grown tired of the wait to boot back into Windows 7 (over a minute). I've since wiped my computer and carefully attempted to see what caused the the rebooting 'issue'. It seems that when I plugged in my USB 2.0 WD 1.5 TB External Drive ("My Book Essential" is the drive's name), suddenly that is when the painful hanging issue started.
I have done some searching on External Drive reboots, and have seen some possible solutions to fix it; yet nothing ever does. I've 'disabled' USB Legacy Mode, which many have said fix the issue. Nada here. Someone at Western Digital said: "The BIOS is seeing the external drive as a possible boot drive, and is stuck looking for the boot sector". That I could see, as it is listed as a Hard Drive in the BIOS. Is there a way to get it out of that list while keeping the drive connected to the computer? One person also mentioned that I should plug it into a Hub. No idea why, but I'm willing to try if some think it might fix this annoying situation. But I've seen a note from another WD Tech another tech that said NOT to connect it to a hub or the system will halt even worse.
Another: "The SES driver in the BIOS is preventing the computer from starting up because it's trying to read the external drive as a SCSI enclosure" (HUH??...Greek to me)...but basically I'm supposed to 'disable' this SES driver which I've come to understand means my onboard sound. But that's the only sound I get from this machine.
So frustrating. If any one has a suggestion (I might understand...AND...might seem doable; unlike killing my sound) I'd REEEEALLY appreciate your input. I'm beyond pulling my hair out with this.
Thanks so much!
Bruce
ASUS P5N-D mobo
Q6600 Intel core 2 Quad 2.4MHz
Win7 x64
4GB DDR2 667
My system, before his suggestion, would hang on restarts causing me to ALWAYS turn the computer off in order to start the computer into Window 7 x64.
His suggestion, to disable the legacy floppy, did work as the computer did eventually restart.
Now, however, I've grown tired of the wait to boot back into Windows 7 (over a minute). I've since wiped my computer and carefully attempted to see what caused the the rebooting 'issue'. It seems that when I plugged in my USB 2.0 WD 1.5 TB External Drive ("My Book Essential" is the drive's name), suddenly that is when the painful hanging issue started.
I have done some searching on External Drive reboots, and have seen some possible solutions to fix it; yet nothing ever does. I've 'disabled' USB Legacy Mode, which many have said fix the issue. Nada here. Someone at Western Digital said: "The BIOS is seeing the external drive as a possible boot drive, and is stuck looking for the boot sector". That I could see, as it is listed as a Hard Drive in the BIOS. Is there a way to get it out of that list while keeping the drive connected to the computer? One person also mentioned that I should plug it into a Hub. No idea why, but I'm willing to try if some think it might fix this annoying situation. But I've seen a note from another WD Tech another tech that said NOT to connect it to a hub or the system will halt even worse.
Another: "The SES driver in the BIOS is preventing the computer from starting up because it's trying to read the external drive as a SCSI enclosure" (HUH??...Greek to me)...but basically I'm supposed to 'disable' this SES driver which I've come to understand means my onboard sound. But that's the only sound I get from this machine.
So frustrating. If any one has a suggestion (I might understand...AND...might seem doable; unlike killing my sound) I'd REEEEALLY appreciate your input. I'm beyond pulling my hair out with this.
Thanks so much!
Bruce
ASUS P5N-D mobo
Q6600 Intel core 2 Quad 2.4MHz
Win7 x64
4GB DDR2 667