Old devices still showing in Bios - - - H87M-D3H Motherboard

[Paul McDonald]

Hello,

That's right.  For example as the attached photo shows in the boot overide section there is an SSH 224Db Samsung DVD Drive which I haven't had in the computer for about 3 months.

I removed the bios battery for 10 minutes but that drive is still showing.

Not a huge deal but I would like to reset the bios to how it was when it left the factory if that is possible.

Also I don't know why it would show an old bootable device anyhow.

It still remained as a bootable device even after I did a clean install of Windows 10.

Regards,

Paul

[shadowsports]

Hey Paul,
You are correct, this information should not be present, especially after a battery pull.  Question, are you using or saving configuration profiles?  If yes, and these devices were part of it, that might be why they appear now. 

What is your current DVD device?  What happen if you select it?  You can also try selecting the old TSST for alternate boot and see if this forces that portion of the BIOS to update itself.

[Paul McDonald]

Hi again,

No I didn't create any profiles and the funny thing is even after I removed the bios battery AND jumpered the cl cmos overnight these options still remain.

The date and time reset to 2014 and all other settings are default but a printer I had attached to the computer previously as well as the TSST DVD drive which is in a recycling centre somewhere still appear as boot options.

Crazy huh?

The computer is working aok so I guess I just forget about it.

PS tried selecting the old dvd drive and after about 20 seconds it booted to the hard drive

Cheers,

Paul

[Paul McDonald]

Problem solved.

I flashed the bios with the latest F10 file and all the old boot options were removed.

That's like using a sledgehammer to hit a nail but it worked :-)

[shadowsports]

True and funny indeed.  Seems those fields retain previous entries until overwritten.  Nice of you to post the solution for others.