Computer won't boot with iPod connected?

[Gunslinger08]

So my computer refuses to boot with my new iPod connected.. runs fine without it. Any ideas?

 

[jayanath]

wht kind of response does it give

 

[Nocturnal]

Are you able to get into your BIOS? Perhaps it's trying to boot off of your iPod since it can be a hard drive or storage device. I haven't had this happen to me although I've had it happen to another computer that I was fixing when I had my thumbdrive stuck in a USB port.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Are you able to get into your BIOS? Perhaps it's trying to boot off of your iPod since it can be a hard drive or storage device. I haven't had this happen to me although I've had it happen to another computer that I was fixing when I had my thumbdrive stuck in a USB port.

I'll check it out and see if it's checking USB before hard disk 0.

 

[ShadowBlade]

if i shut down with my ipod connected, then restart with it disconnected, it says "WARNING: ??? BOOT PRIORITIES HAVE CHANGED. PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE" maybe your motherboard just stops at that point

 

[Gerbil333]

My sister and my a friend of mine have the same problem with their computers + iPods.

 

[bREwIn dOdgEr dUDe]

HA!!! so it wasn't just me, i left my daughter's nano plugged in while booting off, and same thing happened to me, bootup was jacked... at first couldn't figure it out, but everything pointed to the the nano still being hooked up... i just disconnected it, rebooted and no probs after that... so now i don't leave the ipod in no-mo, lesson learned...

 

[FP]

I had the same problem and the issue was my boot order.

When I would boot with the iPod connected all I would get are some random characters.

I had 'Removable device' set higher than hard disk.

Reorder your boot sequence and it should solve your problems.

 

[Allio]

Yeah, this is really common.

 

[quackerww]

I think it has to do with power... and the amount the usb takes...

 

[CosmoHorizon]

Hey guys, I happen to know the solution to his problem. It appears that some BIOS prefer Ipod rather than our installed RAID or even IDE/SATA drives and automatically put the Ipod as the preferred boot drive, what you need to do is to get into your BIOS, and under IDE Configuration or Boot setting, there is a Hard Drive Priority or something along the line of that, set your preferred booting HD to "First" and your Apple IPOD to "Second"

The random character should be the computer's attempt to read the "protected" sector of the Ipod hard drive, and since it finds no rational information, it outputs some junk.

It occured to me that it is possible to use a specifically configured IPod to hijack a system with log-in authentication, because the mobo will put it on automatic "preferred" boot drive

Good Luck!