Thanks for this too. But I hope the simple solution works. I'm not
going anywhere near reflashing the BIOS on someone else's computer. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2015 8:22 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
Also, here are a lot of comments on the same basic issue via Spiceworks. I
can personally vouch for Spiceworks being an OK site, I used it for years
at work.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/456084-asus-x551ca-boot-issue
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quick Boot==Fast Boot
F2 is normal BIOS configuration access. However, many Asus machines have
boot selection using one of the three F-keys I mentioned (or if my memory
is totally faulty today, which is entirely possible, yet a different
F-key). Pressing the proper one brings up a brief text-menu that allows one
to select which boot device to use for that particular boot-time.
Also, this page at superuser.com has some clues that may provide
additional help.
http://superuser.com/questions/692821/how-to-boot-from-usb-on-asus-x551ca
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This ASUS X551CA machine wants F2 to access the BIOS. Already been there
and told it to use the Microsoft Boot Manager which allowed me to select
boot from USB... which it tried to do and failed. Had I not done that it
would have simply booted from the existing hard drive which works fine.
I knew about F2 after downloading the user's manual from ASUS and reading
the BIOS section. But you mentioned "quick boot" which I think it what
this manual calls "Fast Boot" under Boot Configuration along with another
choice called "Launch CSM". Fast Boot is enabled by default and Launch CSM
is disabled by default. The BIOS portion of the user's manual shows these
items as part of the BIOS configuration but never mentions or defines
them. I've never heard of them and have no idea what they're supposed to
do.
Perhaps I should play a little more.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2015 4:44 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
What the Moose sayeth. And also: My Asus desktop machine has a "boot
selector" option that appears early in the boot process. I believe it's
either by pressing F9, F11 or F12 that one can interrupt the boot process
and then select an alternate boot location. If possible, get into the
BIOS
and deselect the option for quick boot, in order to see all boot messages
appear on the screen, at which point you should see a choice for
selective
boot.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/13/2015 9:43 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
Ummm, I hesitate to teach Dr DOS about eggs, but could it be the BIOS
needs
attention to permit booting from a USB device?
And ... The BIOS on my desktop allows control of which devices are
allowed
for boot, and in which order.
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Subject: [OM] Boot failure advice?
A friends computer wont boot. ...
I have no idea why the drive can be read from and written to by Reflect
but the end product is not bootable. I have some other cloning
software
where marking the drive as bootable or changing the drive ID on the
clone are options. But the free version of Reflect has no such options
and, of course, works on my own computer just fine.
Anyone got a suggestion as to where to look?
As above, look to the BIOS. I have used Reflect Free on both desktop and
laptop. But never attempted to boot from the clone via USB. If you want
to
see where the problem lies, put the clone in the computer. If it boots,
the
problem in somewhere in USB, BIOS, computer implementation of USB,
cable,
USB implementation in the toaster/case. Basic problem isolation.
U Should Be able to figure it out.
Acronymic Moose
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