Asus P5Q Pro boot problem

[titaniumx3]

Hi,

I have an Asus P5Q Pro with the following hard disk configuration:

2x120gb SATA drives in Raid-0 (boot disk)
500gb SATA
250gb PATA

... and a SATA DVD-RW drive


All the SATA drives (including dvd-rw) are on the Intel controller and the PATA drive is obviously on the single PATA controller.

Everything works fine, but I also have a 750gb Seagate USB external drive and my problem is if I have this external drive connected whilst the computer is booting up or rebooting, I sometimes (meaning 50% of the time) get an error message saying the ntdlr is missing. I then go into the bios and find that the disk boot priority has changed and the bios is trying to boot from the PATA drive rather than the raid array.

This has happened many times now and it only happens when the external USB drive is connected during bootup. My guess is that the bios trys to boot from the USB drive, can't do it and in the process resets my usual disk boot priority. I've tried looking in the bios but can't find anything.

My current solution is to disconnect the external drive whenever I'm booting the PC, but it is a major pain in the ****.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Xiler]

dunno if u have tried this but connected the external hard drive then go straight into the BIOs before it loads windows.

in the BOOT tab check that the boot priority and Hard disk drives(under boot priority) are set correct. only options that i can see that would effect it.

 

[titaniumx3]

dunno if u have tried this but connected the external hard drive then go straight into the BIOs before it loads windows.

in the BOOT tab check that the boot priority and Hard disk drives(under boot priority) are set correct. only options that i can see that would effect it.

Cool, I didn't think of that, normally I just disconnect the drive when the problem occurs.

I'll give that a try and see what happens. Thanks!