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USB drive plugged in prevents POST

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Gawd
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So I need help with this issue. I've scoured the internet and everyone says 'check boot order' or 'disable legacy USB support'.

I've triple checked the boot order and my internal HD with the OS installed is set to boot first (at least while the drive is not plugged in). When the drive is plugged in, I can't even get to the BIOS as it won't POST.

My BIOS (Abit AB9 QuadGT) does not have a legacy USB support option to disable.

I'm completely confused. I know it was something I did because it worked for the longest time, then I started playing with some settings in the Computer Management console (where you set discs to Active/Dynamic/Simple/etc) and it no longer works. Now I have no idea how to get it back.

I've tried reformating the external HD, to no avail. It works perfectly fine when plugged into another computer during restart.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
It doesn't POST => has nothing to do with the OS.

Have you tried the BIOS default/optimized setting ?
 
I have seen some older boards do that. Not yours in particular, but some time back I had an Abit IP35 which would hang at POST if I had a particular USB Microsoft Mouse (which worked fine on every other machine) hooked to any of the onboard USB ports. Just for the hell of it, do you have a USB hub you can use to test, if you hook the drive to the hub and the hub to the pc, does the problem go away?
 
Issue solved. The drive was set up as a GPT. No idea why that would prevent POST, but alas.
 
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