Boot fail with USB HDD connected

No-One · 24 May 2009 at 22:31

I've recently got a Western Digital USB HDD. When ever I turn my system on with it fails to get through the POST and just gets into a never ending cycle of rebooting halfway through. If I let the system boot into windows and then connect it, it works perfectly. My motherboard is a Gigabyte EP45 DS3.

Has anyone else come across anything like this?

Ross1234 · 24 May 2009 at 22:33

Same thing happens with an ipod connected. You need to disable booting from USB in the bios.

mpj88 · 24 May 2009 at 23:11

You need to change your setting in bios. Plug in the hdd go to BIOS and change boot priority to your main os hdd.

No-One · 25 May 2009 at 00:26

No luck. With the hdd connected I can't even get into the bios. it resets before it's even started the memory test

mpj88 · 25 May 2009 at 10:29

hmm, then that doesnt sound like a boot issue. I dnt know what else to suggest i usually disconect any external stuff when i shutdown a comp anyway.

No-One · 25 May 2009 at 10:38

Seems to be the easiest way. I only use it about once a week to keep my backups up to date. I did try it on my sisters system (an old AMD 64 rig) and it booted with it connected fine. Don't really think it's worth trying a BIOS flash for such a minor issue