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    w3j boot priotity problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by dmak, Jul 18, 2007.

  1. dmak

    dmak Notebook Consultant

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    when I stick in a disk or a bootable flash drive, I cant get the laptop to boot from it, it just skips it no mater what order I specify in the bios. I also have tried hitting escape and manually selecting the boot option I want. I havent cared to much about this, but too many problems are cropping up because of this and I want to try and fix this now. any help would be appreciated
     
    dmak, Jul 18, 2007
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  2. trooper_gs

    trooper_gs Notebook Consultant

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    try updating to the latest version of bios from Asus update site
     
    trooper_gs, Jul 18, 2007
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  3. dmak

    dmak Notebook Consultant

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    did that a while ago
     
    dmak, Jul 18, 2007
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    Nrbelex Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    What are you trying to boot, exactly? Obviously you've gotta make sure it's something bootable and the device itself is able to be booted from - some USB devices are not able to be booted from...

    ~ Brett
     
    Nrbelex, Jul 18, 2007
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  5. remzi

    remzi Notebook Guru

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    The bootable media you use can also be corrupted, no need to blame the BIOS all the time :p

    Btw, do you see a text like "Found: USB Mass storage device" during the boot process? My notebook notifies me that way everytime I plug a USB flash drive and tries to boot from it...
     
    remzi, Jul 18, 2007
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  6. dmak

    dmak Notebook Consultant

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    no, I have tried multiple things.... I am trying to align the clusters first so I can convert to ntfs from fat 32... I have tried booting windows cds, bootabe usbs (yes they were formatted correctly, I tried them on a friends comp) etc
     
    dmak, Jul 18, 2007
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  7. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    If it doesn't boot from CD either then you do have a problem.

    Try:
    - resetting BIOS to defaults
    - rewriting BIOS with the same or older version
     
    E.B.E., Jul 19, 2007
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