Maleko Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I have a Asus P5Q-E Mainboard, updated to latest bios to see if it fixes this problem, still no luck.Heres the problem.My connected hard drives goes as follows:X2 80GB in RAID0 - Main OS500GB Internal Sata Drive250GB eSATA drive500GB USB Seagate FreeAgent Harddrive1TB USB Seagate FreeAgent HarddriveMy boot device priority is set as follows:1st - ATAPI CDROM2nd - INTEL RAID3rd - DisabledEach time I turn my PC on - Not after a reboot, the Priority changes! I have to go back into the bios, change it, then reboot successfully.IT changes randomly to things like:1st - USB FreeAgent 500GB2nd - USB FreeAgent 1000GB3rd - SATA 500GB4th - SATA 250GB5th - ATAPI CDROMThis can apear in any random order, with the INTEL RAID not showing, I have to re-enable it in the Connected Hard Drives options.Any Ideas? I'm pretty lost now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 is this the only setting in the bios that changes after a cold boot?try changing another setting such as disabling the floppy drive and then turn off then on again, see if that changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 yeh, this is the only setting that gets changed, my floppy drive is always disabled, and that never comes back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 odd, so you have the latest BIOS and it doesn't seem to be the battery.i don't know what to say, hopefully someone will know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Odd indeed, but flash your BIOS, if it is the latest go one step back, do a total reset of the BIOS too. Set "boot from USB device" to "no" if that is found in your BIOS.There could be also something wrong with the RAID setup as well (eg. faulty Southbridge).But hey, to try never hurts does it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I have 3 USB sticks (same models) that are apparently too slow to be detected by most Bios at cold boot so I always have to reboot first if I want to boot them (and unfortunately reenter bios and shift in HDD boot order). Other sticks don't do that.This could be (only half) an explanation to your problem though yours seems more complicated ("random order" ?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 kept trying to change boot order and any other settings that could relate to it, but no luck, it seems to be that when it detects the USB hard drives it for some reason wants to put them in the first boot order...very strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 i don't think i've ever had that problem, but if you disable "boot from other device" does it stop?my theory is that the BIOS detects the drives and adds them to the boot list trying to boot off them. simply having them plugged in when the computer starts makes the computer 'go stupid' a little, and check to see if it can boot off them.if that isn't the case then i have no idea what to tell you, but i've had similar problems. but moving to firewire for my external hardware changed all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 @Maleko:Boot the computer with all devices plugged in and turned on.So that it lists :1st - USB FreeAgent 500GB2nd - USB FreeAgent 1000GB3rd - SATA 500GB4th - SATA 250GB5th - ATAPI CDROMEnter the BIOS, make sure in Main => Storage Configuration that configure SATA as is set to RAID. If it is not, hit F10 to save the settings, reboot, re-enter the BIOS and confirm that it is saved correctly.Now, go into your boot devices and change it to :1st - ATAPI CDROM2nd - INTEL RAID3rd - USB FreeAgent 500GB4th - USB FreeAgent 1000GB5th - SATA 500GB6th - SATA 250GBSave it with F10, reboot and confirm that it's been saved as such.If after rebooting you have confirmed that the settings were correctly saved, NOW you can set your settings to:1st - ATAPI CDROM2nd - INTEL RAID3rd - DisabledAnd that should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 (edited) Gave that a go jcarle, still no luck im afraid.I have however seem to have solved it!After going through each setting one by one in the bios I came across the USB Mass Storage Configuration.In there you can set the emulation for attached USB storage, it was set to AUTO, emulating as a hard drive, so I set it to FDD and now it never seems to take over in the hard disk setup, as it gets seen in BIOS as removable storage, but still a usb hard drive in windows! Edited August 30, 2009 by Maleko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Good to know you got it fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 In there you can set the emulation for attached USB storage, it was set to AUTO, emulating as a hard drive, so I set it to FDD and now it never seems to take over in the hard disk setup, as it gets seen in BIOS as removable storage, but still a usb hard drive in windows! So, BIOS defaults set's it to AUTO? Good to know this for other people who have the same "problem". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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