Any luck with Asus anyone?
Forum: USB booting
Topic: Any luck with Asus anyone?
started by: JGO
Posted by JGO on Sep. 06 2005,16:11
Hello All,Upon reading this forum I have noticed that some people using Asus boards (Specifically any of the nforce ones for AMD's) have not had much luck booting a USB drive.
I am in the same boat, any suggestions would be welcome, and for posterity and future searches by people with the same hardware:
Anytime I try to boot to a DSL USB-HDD drive it just asks me to install the boot disk and press enter.
I have tried all different BIOS settings from USB-HDD, no other devices, to USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM etc...
Specs:
< Asus 87N8X-E Deluxe with v 1008 BIOS revision 2.
>
with the Nforce 2 Ultra chipset.
Needless to say it doesn't work with this motherboard. I even updated to the latest BIOS etc...
Posted by JGO on Sep. 06 2005,16:13
Oh, one thing I forgot to add.The drive is a Lexar Media 256 Mb "JumDrive Secure" model: JDS256-40-520C
Posted by JGO on Sep. 06 2005,16:19
Yeah I know I look like a spammer, just trying to get the information out there.Just found one other person who noticed this Asus mobo can't do it either "< my ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard cannot >"
So if you have one of these, don't believe all of the BIOS options for booting from USB, its not going to wokr.
LOL go figure.
Posted by Flare576 on Sep. 07 2005,01:07
Probably just a problem that they use the same generic BIOS (I have next to no expereince with BIOS issues, so I don't know if they do or not), but you can add the A8N SLi Deluxe to the list of non-working machines... If someone knows of a patch or something, that'd be great.Not that this belongs here, but I don't really expect an answer anyway - When I try to book off the cd, I never get to xwindows, it goes through the loading process but grey screens (at least it looks grey on my machine) and hangs. Any ideas?
Posted by usambara on Sep. 11 2005,00:22
| Quote (JGO @ Sep. 06 2005,12:11) |
| Hello All, Upon reading this forum I have noticed that some people using Asus boards (Specifically any of the nforce ones for AMD's) have not had much luck booting a USB drive. I am in the same boat, any suggestions would be welcome, and for posterity and future searches by people with the same hardware: Anytime I try to boot to a DSL USB-HDD drive it just asks me to install the boot disk and press enter. I have tried all different BIOS settings from USB-HDD, no other devices, to USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM etc... Specs: < Asus 87N8X-E Deluxe with v 1008 BIOS revision 2. > with the Nforce 2 Ultra chipset. Needless to say it doesn't work with this motherboard. I even updated to the latest BIOS etc... |
Hi,
i use the same MB and the same Bios. I have no probs to boot from my USB-Stick. Have you enabled the usb-legacy support?
Greetings from Germany
usambara