Bootable USB problem

[jaws104]

Hi

- I've no floppy drive so I'm forced to try flashing a video card via USB stick.


I used 'HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool' to create the usb boot disk, no probs

Then I choose usb as primary removable disk in bios (instead of floppy), and then select it as primary boot disk. THis works perfectly except.....

If I boot regularly without the USB stick in the drive, primary removable disk reverts to floppy. It stays stuck on floppy even if I put the USB stick back in and reboot.

Basically it means I have to manually change it in the bios every time I want to boot from USB!!

I can't see a way round this:confused:

by the way it's on Asus P5W DH - & any help greatly appreciated:)

[zanzabar]

instead of changing the boot order use f8, otherwise it will reset when the usb stick is removed

[jaws104]

I'm not sure but I'm guessing this is to select boot drive from dos?

That would work I suppose:) Nice one

I'm a bit concerned about having to use the same stick to flash the bios aswell as an being an emergency flash stick if it went pear-shaped - would be the same as using a single floppy I guess.

I'm thinking I could setup the force flash autoexec on another computer?