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