Comp is not booting up

[gamerxx13]

Well I have a gigabyte ds4 with 4 gigs of Gskill ram 800, and a q6600 G0 stepping. well i got it to 3.4 no problems. the thing is when i attact my USB external harddrive to my computer, it then boots up and mid way through booting up will shut down and restart. when it restarts it goes back to 2.4 the default settings. but when the harddrive is not plugged in boot up, then the computer is totally fine starting up at 3.4. what is the deal?? its a western digital external harddrive.

 

[JimiP]

Is the PC trying to boot from the external?

 

[VirtualLarry]

It sounds like your power-supply is not up to the task.

 

[Alyx]

My guess goes right with JimiPs. Mine freezes on boot when my iPod is plugged in because it tries to boot off it. Luckily the bios doesn't reset but the symptoms are quite similar.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Aren't you getting an error report? I was thinking driver. But you should get error report .

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
It sounds like your power-supply is not up to the task.

I had that thought too, but looking at his sig, he's apparently running the system off a 520HX, which should be more than fine.

 

[Peelback79]

Originally posted by: Alyx
My guess goes right with JimiPs. Mine freezes on boot when my iPod is plugged in because it tries to boot off it. Luckily the bios doesn't reset but the symptoms are quite similar.

I'd say that's it. I have a similar system as yours and if I leave my little usb flash drive in it starts and restarts as yours did. It's like on my old system if you left a floppy disk in your computer wouldn't boot it would just come up to that screen "No boot disk detected...................". If all you have to do is boot up and THEN plug in your external drive I'd say go that route. Oh, and if you use Vista, try using Low Power mode as opposed to turning it completely off. It doesn't matter if I leave my flash drive in if I use LP mode.

Edit: My old HD's used to have jumpers on the back to designate them "Master" and slave and all that. But there isn't any on my new SATA drives. I was wondering if there's a way to set the internal HD to master. Then it would boot off of that SATA port regardless of what's in your usb drives. I don't like leaving my computer in LP when I'm gone for longer than a day or two.

 

[JimiP]

There is a setting in the BIOS that allows you to choose your HDD boot (not boot priority). HDD Boot Sequence (or something to that effect). I'm betting your PC has selected the External as your first boot HDD priority.

 

[Drummen]

Well guys, i figured it out. I'm using 2 western digital mybook external harddisks. In the bios there is a setting "legacy USB Boot Device" which was enabled.

By disabling this it posted through the boot and is overclocking like sunshine....