Have not tried this, but here goes... In CMOS, BOOT section there is an
option (2nd choice I think) for HDDs. If your USB drive is available under
that listing then make it the first HD is the list. This should set it up
as the first drive the system checks for boot files.
You can give this a try and see if the USB drive is even seen. My USB
DVD-RW is seen in the listing, just below, for CD drives.
FWIW,
Len
"Jens Schulze" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi there!
> Seems to be hard work getting my P4P800 boot from any USB-Device (tried
> 256MB-stick as well as external HDD-bay, both USB 2.0). The "best"
reaction
> I ever got was something like "non system-disk... ". The rest of the time
my
> PC ignored the USB-boot-device and booted to W2K, which is my "normal" OS.
> Can anyone explain, which BIOS-settings should be done to make it boot?
> BIOS-Rev is 08.00.09 from 20.08.2003, ID is P4P81080. Do I have to do some
> special preparations with the external HDD? Itīs an old 2GB-HDD, FAT16
> formatted and recognized in BIOS. I formatted it with DOS 6.2, tried it in
> another PC with direct (motherboard-) IDE-connect and everything worked
> fine. Btw, everything else works fine with this MB, so I really think, it
> canīt be a great thing to enable USB-boot.
>
> Iīd be very glad if anyone could give me some advice (like a step-by-step
> explanation which settings have to be taken...)!
>
> Thx and all the best for 2004!
>
>
> Greetz
>
> Jens
>
>
>
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