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GA-990FXA-UD3 booting from flash drive

GA-990FXA-UD3 booting from flash drive
« on: November 25, 2011, 07:52:33 am »
I cannot find a setting in the bios to allow the system to boot from a USB stick, am I overlooking something?
OS Win 7 Ultimate SP1 64Bit
MOB:Gigabyte GA-MA 990FX-UD3
CPU: AMD FX-4 Quad Core 4100BE
RAM: 2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
PSU: OCZ Modxstream Pro 600W silent
CASE: Fractal R3
GPU: XFX HD6870 1GB DDR5
HDD: WD1002FAEX CB SATA 3

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Re: GA-990FXA-UD3 booting from flash drive
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2011, 08:10:43 am »
Hi there,

Check in BIOS under the heading Advanced BIOS Features. Under the sub-heading First Boot Device you need to change this to USB-HDD to always boot from a USB pendrive.

If you only want to BOOT once or twice from the USB pendrive then it is better to press the F12 key during the POST process. This will bring up the BOOT Menu and you can then choose USB-HDD from this list. Doing this will not alter the primary BOOT setting made under Advanced BIOS Features.
Remember, when all else fails a cup of tea and a good swear will often help! It won't solve the problem but it will make you feel better.

Re: GA-990FXA-UD3 booting from flash drive
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 06:24:58 pm »
absic

Thank you for your quick reply, your instructions worked perfectly, unfortunately the Pen drive crashed the system, I have just managed to get back to normal.

The F12 action will be extremely useful, that was not an option on my old computer.
OS Win 7 Ultimate SP1 64Bit
MOB:Gigabyte GA-MA 990FX-UD3
CPU: AMD FX-4 Quad Core 4100BE
RAM: 2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
PSU: OCZ Modxstream Pro 600W silent
CASE: Fractal R3
GPU: XFX HD6870 1GB DDR5
HDD: WD1002FAEX CB SATA 3