Anyone ever seen this cool feature on your ASUS mobo?

[oldfart]

I haven't seen it documented, but it works on both a P3B-F and CUSL2. If you hold down the <esc> key during boot up, a little boot loader screen pops up. You can pick on the fly, any device to boot from. This would be floppy, any HD, CDrom, SCSI device. Real handy if you have a dual boot on two drives, or for that once in awhile occasion that you need to boot from a floppy or CD. Nice feature.

 

[kami]

It's Asus, what did you expect?

 

[Sundog]

Did not know that!

 

[oldfart]

Do all models have this feature? If yours does, post it. How about non-ASUS? If so, post it also.

 

[hotrodder]

k7v

 

[bacillus]

hmm, I'm off to try that now!

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

Works on Asus P3V4X.

 

[Hanpan]

Yeah i found that a long time ago. Kinda useful if you have more than one hdd whith multiple oses.

 

[Soccerman]

dasm! I didn't know that! that could help me out a ton! thanks!

 

[Lvis]

Thanks for the post, my son did this with my p3b-f and couldn't tell me which key did it. It is a neat feature, I couldn't find it in the manual anywhere.

 

[oldfart]

I didn't see it in the manual either. Did it by accident one day. Strange that they dont document such a nice feature.

 

[Blayze]

I have two ASUS boards here a K7V and a P2B
does it work on these boards?

 

[Hanpan]

I am setting up a p2b-ds today. I will let you know if it works.

 

[chuckieland]

cool man

 

[Biggs]

What about for the VIA-based chipsets, KT133(A7V) and KT133A(A7V133)?

 

[Spunky]

Works on Asus P3V4X, only after you do the BIOS update though. Hmmm. Interesting.

 

[Ausm]

Cool thx for the tip oldfart

Ausm

 

[Schola]

Damn thats cool, now I am going to have to try it with my K7M.


Schola

 

[AndyHui]

This feature is present on all boards that use the AWARD/Phoenix BIOS version 6.00.

This means that all boards after and including the P3B-F have this feature, so long as you have the latest BIOS update.

Older boards such as the P2B family, using the AWARD 4.51PG BIOS, does not have this feature.

 

[woodie1]

Didn't work on my K7M.

 

[Dulanic]

Cool feature, Very useful since I have 3 CD-Roms so if I need to boot from one I can just pick.

 

[emjem]

Who said old dogs can't learn new tricks?

 

[polar]

cool tip, thanks oldfart!

 

[oldfart]

Glad to share it with everybody. It can be a pretty handy feature.

AndyHui, thanks for the clarification. So any mobo using Award 6 bios can do this including brands other than ASUS?

 

[AndyHui]

I don't know if other manufacturers have implemented this...never tried....