Hi.
Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but always get
hard boot failure on a blue screen.
Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a hard
drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on FE2007
do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
Thanks.
Graham.

What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged in? Is
there an emulation mode for hard drive?

http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB%202%20Flash%20Boot.pdf

--
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:653463EC-3D61-42BE-9780-5DA41FE27C8C@microsoft.com...
> Hi.
> Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but always
> get
> hard boot failure on a blue screen.
> Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a
> hard
> drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on
> FE2007
> do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
> Thanks.
> Graham.

It's a VIA M series Mb with first boot device set to USB Flash.
Graham.

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:

>
> What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged in? Is
> there an emulation mode for hard drive?
>
> http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB%202%20Flash%20Boot.pdf
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sean Liming
> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:653463EC-3D61-42BE-9780-5DA41FE27C8C@microsoft.com...
> > Hi.
> > Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but always
> > get
> > hard boot failure on a blue screen.
> > Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a
> > hard
> > drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on
> > FE2007
> > do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
> > Thanks.
> > Graham.
>
>

The VIA M series' bios doesn't support USB hard disk emulatation, thus XPe
cannot boot from USB on the system. I have asked VIA to update the BIOS, but
they are more focussed on the newer C7 boards.

The new EX and I believe EK have support in the BIOS to boot XPe via USB
flash disk.

--
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:856C279D-01D5-4C0E-AC60-AF783625B51B@microsoft.com...
> It's a VIA M series Mb with first boot device set to USB Flash.
> Graham.
>
> "Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged in?
>> Is
>> there an emulation mode for hard drive?
>>
>> http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB%202%20Flash%20Boot.pdf
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sean Liming
>> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
>> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
>> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:653463EC-3D61-42BE-9780-5DA41FE27C8C@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi.
>> > Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but
>> > always
>> > get
>> > hard boot failure on a blue screen.
>> > Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a
>> > hard
>> > drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on
>> > FE2007
>> > do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
>> > Thanks.
>> > Graham.
>>
>>

Thanks for that info Sean. I had previously tried the EN15000 which did not
work but was not sure why.
We make products for the visually impaired and need to find a low cost
Mother board solution which has only 3 components Sapi5 a RS232 and Printer
port and can boot from USB. If there are any ideas of such MB I would be very
grateful.
Thanks
Regards Graham.

"Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:

> The VIA M series' bios doesn't support USB hard disk emulatation, thus XPe
> cannot boot from USB on the system. I have asked VIA to update the BIOS, but
> they are more focussed on the newer C7 boards.
>
> The new EX and I believe EK have support in the BIOS to boot XPe via USB
> flash disk.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Sean Liming
> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:856C279D-01D5-4C0E-AC60-AF783625B51B@microsoft.com...
> > It's a VIA M series Mb with first boot device set to USB Flash.
> > Graham.
> >
> > "Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged in?
> >> Is
> >> there an emulation mode for hard drive?
> >>
> >> http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB%202%20Flash%20Boot.pdf
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Sean Liming
> >> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
> >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
> >> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:653463EC-3D61-42BE-9780-5DA41FE27C8C@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi.
> >> > Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but
> >> > always
> >> > get
> >> > hard boot failure on a blue screen.
> >> > Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on a
> >> > hard
> >> > drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on
> >> > FE2007
> >> > do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > Graham.
> >>
> >>
>
>

I had a EPIA EX 15000G that supported booting XPe from USB.

--
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD0479E9-C005-47CA-AFEA-2972A6ECE2A8@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for that info Sean. I had previously tried the EN15000 which did
> not
> work but was not sure why.
> We make products for the visually impaired and need to find a low cost
> Mother board solution which has only 3 components Sapi5 a RS232 and
> Printer
> port and can boot from USB. If there are any ideas of such MB I would be
> very
> grateful.
> Thanks
> Regards Graham.
>
> "Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> The VIA M series' bios doesn't support USB hard disk emulatation, thus
>> XPe
>> cannot boot from USB on the system. I have asked VIA to update the BIOS,
>> but
>> they are more focussed on the newer C7 boards.
>>
>> The new EX and I believe EK have support in the BIOS to boot XPe via USB
>> flash disk.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sean Liming
>> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
>> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
>> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:856C279D-01D5-4C0E-AC60-AF783625B51B@microsoft.com...
>> > It's a VIA M series Mb with first boot device set to USB Flash.
>> > Graham.
>> >
>> > "Sean Liming (MVP)" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> What are the BIOS options set to when the USB flash drive is plugged
>> >> in?
>> >> Is
>> >> there an emulation mode for hard drive?
>> >>
>> >> http://www.sjjmicro.com/Docs/USB%202%20Flash%20Boot.pdf
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Sean Liming
>> >> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
>> >> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
>> >> "STB" <STB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:653463EC-3D61-42BE-9780-5DA41FE27C8C@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Hi.
>> >> > Have added all the right components and set BIOS to USB Flash but
>> >> > always
>> >> > get
>> >> > hard boot failure on a blue screen.
>> >> > Have tried both running FBA from USB and making a run image first on
>> >> > a
>> >> > hard
>> >> > drive and then copying to USB stick. Neither work. The help files on
>> >> > FE2007
>> >> > do nothing to help. Any ideas please.
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> > Graham.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>