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    Asus G50Vt-X5 still tries to boot from CD first for some unknown reason.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by 133794m3r, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. 133794m3r

    133794m3r Notebook Consultant

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    AS stated my PC still tries to boot from the CD even though i go into the BIOS and i have changed it back to HDD is the first. Then i even disabled the CD boot but yet it still goes and does the CD search first for some unkown reason. Should i flash my BIOS to fix this problem? or is there some other solution.

    Edit:I mean it checks for CD before POST, checks for it after POST and then checks for a CD once more durning boot. This is very very effing annoying as this is most definitately not a quiet boot.
     
    133794m3r, Apr 12, 2009
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    bump(10char)
     
    133794m3r, Apr 28, 2009
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    It could be its not checking for the CD

    On my desktop PC, when the BIOS does a scan for HDD's it will trigger a reset of the device bus which includes a reset of the optical drive. This makes the drive spin up and check for a disk.

    The only way to stop this from happening is to either unplug the drive if it has cables on the back or physically remove the drive from the PC.
     
    Qwakrz, Apr 29, 2009
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    oh that's a yay thing -_- it just started doing it outta the blue a couple days ago.
     
    133794m3r, Apr 29, 2009
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    set it up in bios press esc at asus screen and when bios loads pressf12 and youll enter bios setup and set it up so that your hardrive is booted frst then cd then usb etc
     
    motok, Apr 29, 2009
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    I have had many computers that check for a disk even if it is at the end of the boot device lists.

    Its just checking for a disk in the drive, not actually trying to boot from the device.

    You could just not leave a disk in there :p
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Apr 29, 2009
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    or unplug your drive lol
     
    motok, May 1, 2009
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    one thing is true :
    the more partitions you have, the more checks will be done at boot...
    disks, usb sticks, sd cards, etc... slows the boot check and the boot process
     
    stouf, May 1, 2009
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    i never have a disk in there. I also make sure to have nothing plugged into it except the mouse.
     
    133794m3r, May 3, 2009
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