Hangs at boot when USB external drive plugged in

[WhiteTornado]

Hi,

This is an MSI 850 Pro5 mobo with 256 Rambus, with Win2k. I just re-installed everything and while all seems operational, there is one issue remaining, which I actually have ran into in the past with other systems, but never found what was going on. When the 40GB external USB Maxtor HDD is plugged in, and I try to start ot restart the system hangs up, will not make it to the ide detection step.

I was told this is something particular with Windows 2000. It might be, but this is no solution, I always tend to beleive that there is a fix for these things!

Thanks.

Marcel

 

[micker377]

Is the external drive "jumpered" properly? Look in fdisk and see if it is set as "active". Your system may be trying to "boot" from both drives at the same time.

 

[Lemon13]

try unmark usb legacy support in bios!?

 

[WhiteTornado]

Hi and tks! I know that Legacy USB is not activated, the drive is jumpered as master within the USB enclosure. It is likely trying to boot from it as you say - I will get to see that machine in a few weeks now, I will check with FDISK, this is qa good idea.

Cheers

MC

 

[KimberTech]

I found a known issues article on the MS site regarding that while troubleshooting a camera for a company a while ago. This will give you a place to start.

If I can find it again I will post the link. I linked to it off the HP site.

Good Luck!

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[bcastner]

Turn off USB 2.0 Legacy BIOS support in the computer's BIOS Setup utility.