091025 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: >> 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) ? > There's an accelerated-boot option in the BIOS. > You have to switch that off to be able to boot a USB stick > Took me days to find that one :-(
Thanks ! -- it would have taken me days too, if you hadn't told me ! Having disabled 'boot booster' in BIOS, it works straight after power-on : F2 gets the BIOS menus or Esc gets the boot menu with choice of OS. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
