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August 17th, 2008 19:00

USB thumb drive freezes Startup

If I restart my XPS M1530 with the USB thumb drive inserted the laptop will not reboot.  I am forced to remove the thumb drive, hold the power button until it shuts down, restart, then insert the thumb drive.

 

In BIOS my boot sequence is:  Hard Drive, CD/DVD and then USB. 

 

I have tried with three brands of thumb drives; same problem with all.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks 

 

 

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    pcgeek11

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    Posted August 17th, 2008 22:00

    I too have found this to be a problem with lots of thumb drives. Some of mine work fine and some will stop the system with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. The best option is not to insert the thumb drive until booted. or find one that works properly. My 2gb Kingston Thumb drive works fine where my 2gb microcruzer doesn't

     

     

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    mmehta91

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    Posted August 19th, 2008 04:00

    Yes, some flash drives have problems. If you insert a flash drive or any USB product In some cases might not work (exclude printers).

    The best thing to do would be to put flash drive or any USB products after your computer goes to Windows.

     

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    mjl0624

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    Posted August 26th, 2008 21:00

    Try taking USB drives out of the boot order entirely (or at least move it to the end) ... that has worked in the past for me on several Latitude models/systems. 

     

    For some reason even though the drive wasnt bootable the BIOS wants to boot from it ... so it just sits there at a blinking cursor.  Confused me alot the first time.

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