Acer Revo 3700 & Windows 7

[N$X]

hey guys,

i finally took the plunge and bought an acer aspire revo 3700.

i was thinking of building a htpc machine, but decided this would be more cost effective.

anyway, the revo 3700 comes with linpus pre installed. i didn't see this as a problem, as i had plans to install windows 7 ultimate over it.

i did the usual, hit del and changed the boot sequence to usb and saved the settings. i installed windows 7 bootable onto a 8 gig USB pen. using the windows 7 tool. i know for sure the usb pen is bootable, as i have tried it on my pc and laptop.

for some reason the Acer revo 3700 wants to boot up the linpus, despite me changing the settings. i have changed the quick boot in bios, but the machine wants to boot up in linux.

Any ideas?

thanks.

 

[N$X]

i have taken a screen shot of the BIOS screen and the advance BIOS feature screen.

as you can see, i have changed the boot sequence.

What am i doing wrong?

 

[N$X]

i changed a setting under hard disk priority to "ARM". It was on "auto" before. That changed allowed me to boot off USB, however i had to change it back, once the files had been copied. As it was stuck in a loop, due to no hard drive detection.

it wasnt obvious. i messed about with it for hours and didnt find much info on the net.

anyway, XP is a lot slower to boot than linpus.