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AdvarP · Guest

Hello,

I am trying to get a floppy-less LG LT20 notebook to boot from flash. After
unsuccessful tries, I decided to test if my main POC would boot from the USB
flash drive. No way.

The USB flash has been prepared with 1) the HP Key utility and 2) the
USBFlash program. I have tried both as floppy and as HDD.

Now, to be able to start debugging this , I would need to know HOW to get
the MSI k9N SLI Platinum to boot from the USB. I press F11, go to Boot menu,
then... there is no USB Flash or USB HDD even, just USB floppy or USB Zip or
USB Optical. Whatta... I have tried to select USB floppy to no avail, also
USB Zip... nothing, the system does not even try to read the USB although it
is listed in that startup screen where tyhe HDD, Floppies, Memory etc are
listed - that screen that looks like a table, not during POST.

Has anyone been able to boot from USB Flah using this Mobo, if so PLEASE
please tell me how.

Thank you

AdvarP · Guest

Oh bl**dy hell - it seems to be k8n sli, my apologies :-) gee I have an old
board already :-)

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guest · Guest

Check with the MSI website for newer bios that supposed to support
boot from a USB device.

I still have my K7T Pro-A board & found newer bios dated 2002 that
said for booting with a USB device. Still wasn't able to boot from
a flash drive after either doing the HP or mkbt methods of setting
up a DOS flash drive.

Think I'm missing something but you may have better luck especially
your K8N is a newer motherboard.

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AdvarP · Guest

Hi,

I already have the MS-7100 v3.A0 - I suppose it is the latest, I see three
USB options but none includes a flash drive OR a USB HDD. There are other
utils for revealing hidden options but really - is it worth spending time on
that ??

So I guess we are done for. I am not sure if the newer K9N supports that. I
am not sure I will buy MSI at all again in fact, the onboard USB ports have
been hopeless and also I had an internal ZIP drive that made the Mobo never
come back from powersaving - that took ages to debug - fix was... unplug ZIP
!

All Mobos have probs, but I bought this one as high-end ($250 or so) and
after the first one had a defective BIOS, this one had the USB prob.

Actually even the LG Laptop that is newer cannot boot from USB Flash... so
maybe I am doing soemnthing wrong, I am still to get ANY machine to boot
from a USB Flash.

For now I will get a USB Floppy and try with that.

Thanks

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