USB-Boot with P4P800

[Jens Schulze]

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? It´s 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
can´t be a great thing to enable USB-boot.

I´d 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

 

[Len]

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