Recent content by orange1968

I've collected more of those things, even finding them in old jackets ready for the wash. I got a smaller Asus board, as basic as one can get, and am putting that in now. As long as my back can bear it. Yeah, I have many various usb drives, from the older 8gb up to newer 256gb. I even...

Yes, both enabled, not the difference in this case. Hmm, but again, thank you for trying to help! I will check the wiring just for fun but I doubt it. I could have messed up a circuit somewhere on the board. Weird things can happen. Though I've been at this since the days of Apple IIe.

Well, sorry, but as I appreciate the help, indeed, doing that made no difference to my mainboard. The bios setup shows the usb drive as being present but continues to say that nothing is there. The usb drive is certainly there with the windows 11 install ready to go. But nothing boots or is...

Thanks!! But what is the MS MCT tool, how to get it? I've been using an install that I purchased months ago from the MS site.

But it does notice the same drives with Linux installs. A number of different thumb drives have been tried, all with legit Windows 11 install software. BIOS is latest update, with default settings.