How to Stop Mobo from trying to boot from a USB drive

[trainspotting]

I have a problem with my PC trying to boot from a USB device (a flash drive and/or an external drive). This problem is happening on two somewhat older PC's (one is an A7N8X and the other is an Intel D845 series. I have looked in the BIOS for both boards for something that would would access the USB ports during boot up. Both PC's hang up when this happens; only a cold restart with the USB devices unplugged will allow the board to boot normally. I would think there would be a way around this no?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Unheard]

Do you have a boot priority option in BIOS? If so, set your HDD to be #1. See if that fixes it.

 

[superccs]

Uncheck "boot from alternate devices" or removes usb devices...

 

[dma0991]

Go to BIOS and set the boot priority of your HDD as first and any USB devices as last. That would definitely fix the problem.

 

[trainspotting]

I have looked under every option in the BIOS. Anything related to the Boot order or Boot priority lists the hard drive as first and every USB is disabled. Thanks.

 

[piasabird]

Remove USB Drive. You probably dont want to do this or you wouldnt ask the question.