USAFRet :
pschles :
I have a new Dell XPS 8700 with Win 8. When I have drives plugged into USB ports and I restart, the computer just sits there until I physically remove every USB cable except mouse and keyboard, at which time it loads the OS. How to change it from looking to the USB ports to load the OS?
BIOS settings. Boot from HDD first.
I wish it were so simple. Inside the BIOS BOOT page it now looks like this:
Numlock On
Secure Boot Enabled
Clear Secure Boot Keys
Secure Boot Mode Standard
Load Legacy OPROM Disabled
Keyboard Errors Report
USB Boot Support Enabled
Boot Mode [UEFI]
1st BOOT DEVICE [UEFI: Windows Boot M...]
2nd BOOT DEVICE [USB Storage Device]
3rd BOOT DEVICE [Internal ODD Devices]
4th BOOT DEVICE [USB Floppy Device]
5th BOOT DEVICE [Onboard NIC Device]
So what to do, vis a vis your suggested fix?