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Strange happening on boot with new build

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akshatp

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As you may have seen from my "build thread" I recently upgraded my old PC with a new mobo (GB EP43-DS3L), ram (G.skill 2x2gb DDR 1066), Video (MSI N960)GT 512MB), CPU (E7300), PSU (OCZ SXS 600W).

Anyway, after I upgraded these parts in my existing case, I went for the dreaded first power up and hoped everything would work.

Of course, things didnt go as planned. The PC powered up, displayed the MB BIOS splash screen, and then went to black, restarted and displayed the splash screen, does this repeatedly.

Thought maybe I was missing a connection somewhere, so I went through everything and it all seemed okay. So I did the normal troubleshooting steps (disconnect unessentials, etc) and it still happened.

One thing I hadnt thought to disconnect, was the USB hub which had my external WD USB HD connected to it. Turns out, once I disconnected it the PC booted up just fine.

So my question is why would the PC not boot up with the USB drive connected? My old build was just fine with it connected.

It doesnt even let me use the keyboard to go into BIOS when the USB is connected, and I have verified that the boot sequence doesnt even have USB as one of the boot priorities. (Only floppy, CD, HD)
 
Originally posted by: masteryoda34
Check boot order in your BIOS. Put internal hard drive first.
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It is set to floppy, CD, HD.

Even if it was trying to boot off of USB, it should POST at least, no? It doesnt even do that. Just restarts before even POSTing
 
Disonnect the External HD. Boot, then hot plug it afterwards. I had the same problem. The external USB HD is being seen as another HD. You need to order those in BIOS.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Disonnect the External HD. Boot, then hot plug it afterwards. I had the same problem. The external USB HD is being seen as another HD. You need to order those in BIOS.
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Well thats what I have be doing, but my question is why. its not listed as a boot device in the BIOS
 
Some BIOS have a subset under HDD. Check that and make sure the external is not above the internal.
 
yeah, there was probably a hard disk boot order too, and that external drive wasn't a bootable drive. you would of found out about this if you had that external drive bootable with an OS on it...
 
Gigabyte boards have flaky BIOSes when it comes to external HDs. With external HDs (connected through an AC-powered hub), on my GA-P35-DS3R v1.0, the BIOS reboots and resets my overclock. So I have to always go into my BIOS and re-setup my OC, whenever I cold boot.
 
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