BIOS attempts to boot from external HD and hangs the system

[Nitron]

I have an external USB drive (Seagate Free Agent 500GB) connected to a Dell XPS2 Laptop running XP SP2. When I attempt to power on the machine with the USB drive connected, the bios attempts to boot off of the USB drive and the system hangs at a black screen with a blinking cursor, requiring a manual hard reset. The only thing I have specified as bootable in my bios is the internal hard drive, everything else is unchecked, including usb/cd-rom drives.

Help?

 

[markintosh13]

Unplug the usb drive until after booting the laptop?

 

[Nitron]

Unplug the usb drive until after booting the laptop?

not the answer i'm looking for

 

[Nitron]

bump

 

[markintosh13]

Unplug the usb drive until after booting the laptop?

Don't turn the usb drive on until the laptop has booted?

 

[Drawmonster]

Your bios may have a setting called "Boot from other device". You need to make sure that's disabled, and that the only thing set to boot up is your main harddrive.

 

[Spartacus]

BIOS updates often address that type of thing.

 

[Nitron]

BIOS updates often address that type of thing.

yeah, i have the latest bios update though

 

[markintosh13]

Bios mention removables in the boot sequence at all?