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by sylver72

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when i start my win2k laptop if i have a usb external floppy drive connected it wont start but if i attach my usb cd-rom it will.why?

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by oz_media

It is probably set to boot rom the floppy if present.

Just change your Startup/Setup/BIOS to hae it boot from Hard Drive first.

Should you ever need to floppy boot, you will just ned to enter setup and set floppy tas fist boot.

by thechas

It may be a USB controller and bus loading issue.

If I have my USB printer turned on, my work PC will not even begin to POST.

If the printer is off, or connected through a powered hub, then there is no problem.

Other USB devices do not seem to be a problem.

Try a powered hub, and see if that fixes the problem.
If it does, the floppy may be loading down the 5 volt power from the motherboard.

Chas

by chartech

I have has this issue before with a USB CD-Rom drive and fixed it with a BIOS update, if all of the above fails you may want to check into it. It seems there was an issue with how the BIOS dealt with USB drives that were set as boot devices.

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