Booting from USb Mem stick problems

[{{909}}]

Ive got 2 motherboards running and i need to boot from USB mem stick in order to flash a 360, my main pc is a ABit NF7, which doesnt seem to support USB booting at all, however i have an old Epia800 board, which apparently does if you set it to boot from USB-ZIP in the bios.
Ive made a bootable disk from the stick, Using an HP app which i have used successfully in the past (with a diff motherboard) and this makes 3 files on the drive, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM and IO.SYS.

When i put the stick into the Epia, it gets as far as a line of text that says "Verifying DMI Pool Data...........Update success" but goes no further, if i remove the stick at this point, the machine asks for a system disk, so it must be atleast trying to boot from it.

Does anyone have any ideas or experience using these epia boards, info on them is reletivly scarce online, i think a newer bios is available, but id have to make a bootable cd to do that, and thats another post cos i have no idea!

Thanks in advance

[Porthos]

Hi, try using bartPE to make your USB bootable. It's a bastard to set up (though PM me if you have any problems) but could offer an alternative to your plight. Also it's a fucking handy thing to have on your USB drive anyway because you can view your files, copy things, write a little document etc. Good luck!

[{{909}}]

thanks porthos, cheers for the PM too, same thing usually happens to my posts

Since posting this, i ended up building up the old pc that i know works, and used some bootmakers proggy to build me a bootable usb stick, the epia still wont work, but i think thats an issue that could be resolved with a bios update, which i will do should i need to do that same thing again.

Cheers for the input anyway

{{909}}

[joe3k]

I had trouble getting bartPE to work on my 512mb usb key a few months back and gave up trying. Have you actually managed to get it working thenPorthos? If so couold you kindly explain how?