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091025 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: |
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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 seconds |
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>> before the USB stick warms up & gets recognised (its light blinks) ? |
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> There's an accelerated-boot option in the BIOS. |
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> You have to switch that off to be able to boot a USB stick |
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> Took me days to find that one :-( |
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Thanks ! -- it would have taken me days too, if you hadn't told me ! |
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Having disabled 'boot booster' in BIOS, it works straight after power-on : |
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F2 gets the BIOS menus or Esc gets the boot menu with choice of OS. |
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