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External Hard Drive and Boot Issue

Feb 10, 2005 3:23AM PST

I built a new machine any everything works great unless my external hard drive is plugged into the USB port. When it is plugged in, on boot up the computer will tell me that it can't find a hard drive. If I un plug it and boot its fine. If I plug it in after boot up, it works fine. I can't figure out why I can't leave it plugged in? Is this a setting in CMOS? Please Help?
I am running the following hardware.
ABIT AN7
AMD 3200
512 DDRAM 3200
Seagate 120G 7200 SATA Drive
Windows XP Pro

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Your bios setting?
Feb 10, 2005 3:28AM PST

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In the CMOS there are a couple of settings for the USB controller which are labeled as legacy 1.1 support. I figured that meant that unless enabled, the USB ports would operate in 2.0 mode only. According to the motherboard manual, which I should have read -- but real men don't read manuals Happy -- says that it's for providing USB support to OSs that don't support USB, like DOS. I disabled those options and things are once again working. "
- yewanchors

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External Hard Drive and Boot Issue
Feb 10, 2005 3:56AM PST

I will try this. Thanks!

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External Hard Drive and Boot Issue
Feb 10, 2005 11:17PM PST

Still works the same. not change! Thanks!

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2 ideas.
Feb 10, 2005 11:27PM PST

1. Make sure you've checked the Abit website for:
a. Latest BIOS.
b. Latest Motherboard and USB 2.0 drivers.

2. See if http://www.usbman.com notes this issue.

3. Not so much an idea, but my externals didn't work super until I put SP2 on XP.

Bob

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2 ideas
Feb 11, 2005 12:44AM PST

Thanks for your help. My version of XP Pro was just bought and already has SP2. I will look for bios updates from Abit. Bios Updates are real easy to do these days, unlike they used to be. Thanks for the other website info!