On 25 Oct 2009, at 00:30, Philip Webb wrote:
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There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS,
then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first).
However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on :
M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BIOS,
the boot menu & the USB (I've disabled 'quiet boot' in BIOS,
but POST msgs still don't appear). Is this because it takes a few
seconds
before the USB stick warms up & gets recognised (its light blinks) ?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but are you able to / tried changing
the boot order? You should be able to put the USB memory card before
the internal storage, and you might "give the USB bus more time to
warm up" if you put other items (USB optical drive? network boot?) as
the first items.
Stroller.
