Hello Intel Community,
I'm encountering a problem I've never encountered before, and I've looked high and low for a solution with little success and it's an annoying enough of a problem now where I was hoping someone could suggest something I might have overlooked. Upon start-up of my computer, if I have ANY USB media drives plugged in (such a flash drives, external HDDs, etc), the Intel splash will come up and then my computer will proceed to shut down and reboot. Afterwards it will show the Intel splash for a second and then say there was a post boot error and if I want to enter setup or retry booting. This will continue to happen until I unplug all of my USB media devices (I can have my USB wireless keyboard and mouse dongle plugged in, no problem). The only way I can circumvent it (and inevitably boot anything from USB) is to wait until AFTER the Intel chime starts playing before plugging in anything. After that, everything's kosher, no problems whatsoever. This is problematic when I remote into my computer and need to restart the machine; I'll never be able to get back into it if I have my USB hard drives plugged in. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll give you an overview of my build:
700W Power Supply
NVIDIA GTX 670
Intel Core i7-3770K
32 GB RAM
Windows 8 Professional (x64)
Thanks!