<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Have you noticed a pattern that might suggest if the BIOS gets<br>
effected at the point of [a] needing a hard power down, [b] doing a<br>
hard power down, or [c] rebooting after a hard power down. If it is<br>
"case a" then you can't avoid it. If it is b or c, you can by<br>
remembering to remove USB devices.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>The pattern appears to be I get the machine hung up while running while I happen to have a USB drive inserted (Windows or Linux, unfortunately), I force power it down, and then forget to remove the USB before booting up. If I do normal power downs/reboots, doesn't seem to happen, regardless of USB state. In other words, my laziness is causing my familiarity.<br>
<br>Now, that seems to indicate maybe something else in the machine is at fault, but everytime this happens (that i can remember), I am often doing something a bit funky like repartitioning the USB drive/hard drive so I can enable additional boot options. I know how I am, so I'll blame the user first here before blaming the tool.<br>
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