Why won't my PC boot when I have a USB drive plugged in?
815175
When you mean won't boot what is it doing.....\n\nAlso what type of device is in the usb port.  A possibility is that you pluggin in a USB drive or hard drive and it's looking for an operating system.
655238
Sounds mostly like you will have to flash the bios and/or update it. After wards try it again, it should work fine. Also, I read that someone told you there could be a problem with your USB; THEY'RE WRONG! That will not cause your PC to shut down, it will simply not work properly or not work at all. Good luck.
519286
There's several things I can suggest. First, you're USB ports not working may be because they are disabled in your motherboard's setup. (Reached usually be pressing the Del key while your pc is booting up.) If not, have you tried uninstalling all USB drivers before installing the new ones? I have an e-machines too, and it just may be that the download doesn't contain all the files you need.
148134
start->control panel->add remove hardware\n\nnext a million times\n\nshould work\n\ndidnt?\n\nyour usb cable is corrupt
846498
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1676&page=9 is broken link. I dunno how to boot from network, but its worth a try. But:\n\nMay be illegal\nand why would u wanna do that for??\nDuz the USB stick even have 'nuff space??
300108
If not even light is blinking on the drive when booting up pc, either your drive is totally dead need to be replaced or your power cable is not connected/providing the power needed to the drive.\nOpen you pc case and check it, check the data cable connecting to it too, try swapping power cable with harddrive etc.\nwhen reboot go to bios, your bios should able to recognize the cd drive when showing your harddrive.
833575
make sure your computer is plugged in!!
831101
It happens, just go to 'my computer', then find the drive and double click, it will then start up. It can get annoying but windows is lame so what do you expect?
1005064
Windows XP has the drivers...make sure your device has AC power (if applicable). Restart your computer with the USB plugged in to a DIFFERENT USB SLOT!!!
928618
The drivers are for your motherboard.\n\nIf you have the Mobo disk, just insert and choose to replace the USB drivers.\n\nIf no disk, find out exactly which Mobo you have and d/l usb drivers from manufacturers web site.\n\nGood luck
601827
If you are talking about a specific USB pen drive then format it, and try using it on another computer. If that fails then the pen drive is dead. This happens after a certain amount of read/writes.\nIf that works then windows is acting up. Get hold of service pack 2 and install it, even if you already have. This replaces all the USB drivers.
867537
Most modern motherboards support booting from USB - you must already have your USB device ready to boot from though. There are some flavors or linux designed to run off USB drives.\n\nTo enable USB drive booting, turn on your computer and enter the bios (usually Del, F1, F2, F10, or F12 - it should say right when you turn it on - press key to enter bios setup).\n\nNext, locate Boot order and put USB at the top. Finally, save and exit (usually F10 will save and exit).
542418
The USB drive may have been a victim of ESD. Electric Static Discharge. \n\nJohn\nA+ Certified Professional
565773
Did you have a floppy disk inserted or usb thumdrive / hdd attached to your PC's USB ports?\nRemove those one by one and see which one of them cause the problem... start with the floppy...
51666
you flash the bios\nput the newest version of bios for your motherboard\non a bootable device and start the pc from that device.\nfollow the intructions given on the specific website or on the program itself.\ntry it will work
867880
I would guess the power supply failed.\nIf the hard drive spins up and you can tell it is booting up you may have a bad video card or a bad monitor.
751526
Assuming you are using Windows, even though you said you "went through all the driver stuff", you might want to consider booting in SAFE mode, and deleting all the instances of the USB root hub and associated devices.  This will force Windows to reload them on a reboot.  It's possible there is a device conflict that it just hasn't figured-out.  Also, you may want to check under Hardware Profiles and see if more than one profile exists for the system.  Given it's a laptop, it may have created an alternate "docked" configuration and disabled the device in that, or the default configuration. If so, delete the alternate hardware profile and let it rebuild.\n\nBe certain that the device itself isn't marked as disabled in the profile.  Given what you said in your question, it sounds like the device isn't even showing-up at all in the Device Manager? Not even as an Unknown Device?\n\nIf you insert it into the USB port and there is no audible beep to indicate that Windows knows it was inserted (or likewise if you remove it) , you likely have a hardware problem.  Even if you say for certain that the USB ports are working, it is possible that the driver and/or the hardware is failing and it's only operating as a USB 1.x device, which could make the NIC not function (especially if it is USB 2.x compliant).\n\nSince you can take the USB card to another system and say it works fine, that would appear the problem is related to your laptop.\n\nYou also might want to check the power management capabilities to ensure it is not powering down the network card and/or USB hubs to conserve power.  Even if the unit is plugged-in, if for some reason it is running a power-saving scheme, you might have this problem.\n\nif you can provide the specific version of Windows and Service Pack (or Build Number), that would be helpful.  if you are not running windows (e.g. Linux) please provide that info as well (include the distribution, release, update number and kernel from uname -a).\n\nGood Luck!