odd hardware anamoly

Post by **tnf** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:00 am

So I was copying some files off of a USB drive onto my gaming machine and had to reboot...so I reboot with the USB drive still plugged in and I get an error message about an invalid boot device...which was odd, because my boot order was set to the DVD drive, then to the SATA drive, then to the floppy....so I go to the bios and check out the boot order and see that my SATA drive is now not even an option, the order goes from the DVD drive to the USB drive to the floppy drive and I cannot even choose my hard drive...so I pull out the USB drive, reboot and the problem is fixed.

Any idea how/why it would default in the bios to a USB drive that just got plugged in>?

Post by **tnf** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:23 am

asus a8v deluxe
dunno if the delux means anything or not.

Post by **tnf** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:26 am

couldn't this pose a security risk for machines? throwing your own bootable info on a jump drive, dropping it in there and then bypassing the machines login and accessing the data (albeit not directly through the user accounts)?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:35 am

riddla wrote:hmm, im not quite sure. I have all intel mobos and they will also do this, so its perhaps a strange function of the bios.

My A64 board does it to..

Its so you can boot from USB devices such as hard drives.. the "computer" sees the USB drive as a hard drive, thus looks for the boot info, cant find it, it errors..

bad explination, but still, should make sense..

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:38 am

I think I have the same board and mine dosen't do that.

Post by **axbaby** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:48 am

bad security risk for sure.