G50VT-X1 BIOS issue [maybe solved]

Yesterday after work I booted up my G50, only to have it hang after playing the flame animation of the Republic of Gamers logo. Express gate worked fine but going into the BIOS hung for a long time while detecting USB devices. In in fact only seemed to boot the BIOS in no USB devices were plugged in.

After successfully resetting BIOS settings (which I'd not changed for over a month) to defaults and leaving USB devices unplugged I was able to get it to boot.

This morning it would again not boot, so I went through the same procedure, but after booting windows I updated the BIOS from 209 to 210.

This appears to have fixed the issue, as I was able to boot into Windows with USB devices plugged in and the BIOS no longer pauses at the USB detection, so my question is:

Doos anyone know why this might have happened, if I caused it, and if there's a way to prevent it happening again?

 

This is very much not solved. After being powered down for a while the laptop won't boot until I unplug all USB devices and try to boot the bios a couple of times. After a delay at the USB controller init it will boot the bios, after exiting the bios it will boot. After booting USB devices work fine, until I power the computer down for an extended period of time.

 

Maybe it is a particular USB device you are using that is making the laptop freak out?

 

You can't boot with removable storage devices plugged in unless you want to boot from them, regardless of the boot order, it's a bug in the BIOS. I have this problem with eSATA but it also happens with USB storage devices.

 

Thanks, but it doesn't look like it was either of those. I regularly boot with a USB HDD plugged in and using the CMOS reset button (removing the AC and laptop battery and holding in the reset for 30 seconds) seems to have actually fixed it.

So: BIOS update didn't fix it, but CMOS reset did.

 

Does the hardware CMOS reset button do anything more than the firmware option in the BIOS? If not, I would expect the problem to crop up again in a while, like it did after the first reset to defaults...

 

It appears it does more as resetting the bios to defaults only booted the computer immediately after the reset. powering down over night meant it wouldn't boot in the morning.

I've not had that problem after doing the reset, it works fine now.

That being said, it could happen again, I'll just have to deal with it if it does.

 

It did indeed happen again. and I was also getting the double POST glitch, so I'm thinking it might be related to booting with my USB HDD plugged in...though I'm not sure.

 

It did indeed happen again. and I was also getting the double POST glitch, so I'm thinking it might be related to booting with my USB HDD plugged in...though I'm not sure.

 

It did indeed happen again. and I was also getting the double POST glitch, so I'm thinking it might be related to booting with my USB HDD plugged in...though I'm not sure.

 

It did indeed happen again. and I was also getting the double POST glitch, so I'm thinking it might be related to booting with my USB HDD plugged in...though I'm not sure.