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Blake's7 · 07-01-2009, 08:51 PM

Hi! I've been trying to reinstall XP, but the computer locks up after the screen saying it's examining your devices. The only change that has been made to this computer since the last time i reinstalled, is that I've used a USB flash drive to copy pictures from a computer with a bad cd drive to my computer to save them. I used the flash drive 7 times. Since there is nothing wrong with my hardware, I've checked cables, etc, I'm wondering if the flash drive made a change to a BIOS setting. If it did, where would I look for this in the BIOS? I can't think of any other reason for the install to lock up, and the BIOS settings are the same as when I bought the computer, except to change the boot options to boot to cd drive first. Any and all responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

07-01-2009, 08:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blake's7 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 62 OS: xp pro	Flash Deive in BIOS Hi! I've been trying to reinstall XP, but the computer locks up after the screen saying it's examining your devices. The only change that has been made to this computer since the last time i reinstalled, is that I've used a USB flash drive to copy pictures from a computer with a bad cd drive to my computer to save them. I used the flash drive 7 times. Since there is nothing wrong with my hardware, I've checked cables, etc, I'm wondering if the flash drive made a change to a BIOS setting. If it did, where would I look for this in the BIOS? I can't think of any other reason for the install to lock up, and the BIOS settings are the same as when I bought the computer, except to change the boot options to boot to cd drive first. Any and all responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.