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    M570RU/NP5791 boot menu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by joebob23, Jun 11, 2008.

  1. joebob23

    joebob23 Newbie

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    I have a Clevo M570RU that I purchased back in January. In order to boot from a CD/DVD or a flash drive, I normally go into the bois on startup and change the boot sequence to search that particular medium first. I noticed that some desktop pc's have a shortcut built into the bios where you can hit F12 (for example) and a boot menu will show (right after the memory check and drive initialization, but before anything actually loads), and you can do a one-time over-ride of the normal bios boot sequence. Does anyone know of anything like this for Sager/Clevo laptops??

    I don't know what bios version I'm running right off hand, but i could find out and post back later if it's needed...
     
    joebob23, Jun 11, 2008
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  2. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    Mine is just set to boot usb->cd->hdd, so if theres no usb or cd, it boots off hdd, if there is a usb or cd, it tries that and if it doesnt find a boot sector then it still boots off hdd. Doesn't seem to slow my boot procedure so i'm happy...
     
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  3. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    I too wish to know this.I know F12 doesn't work as I have tried it before.Is there any one proficient enough to add this?
     
    The_Observer, Jun 11, 2008
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  4. joebob23

    joebob23 Newbie

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    I tried F12 too, as that is the shortcut key on my brother's desktop. It's not really that big of an inconvenience, I just sometimes forget and leave my usb drive in the slot and it throws a "non system disk" error...
     
    joebob23, Jun 11, 2008
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  5. bigjohnsonforever

    bigjohnsonforever Notebook Evangelist

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    Nope you gotta make a quick trip to the BIOS and change the boot order in there.
     
    bigjohnsonforever, Jun 11, 2008
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