Quote from: flatronw on January 14, 2013, 05:59:55 AM

Quote from: RyNinDaCleM on January 13, 2013, 02:48:52 PM

Quote from: flatronw on January 13, 2013, 09:54:28 AM

Be aware that Gigabyte M/Bs can be a PITA to boot from a USB Stick.

I was unaware of this! Any known/suspected reason for this?

It is well documented, but if you dont know about it you can be running around in circles trying to figure out WTF is wrong. Seems to be something about DOS and FAT formats. There was a post by someone associated with the BAMT site about using two USB sticks as a work around. First stick loaded something, when that finished, the second stick loaded BAMT. The FAQ on BAMT shows compatible hardware and lists some Gigabyte boards as Not Compatible.
I never pursued it, I simply sold the two Gigabyte M/Bs that had caused me massive angst and bought two MSI M/Bs and that was the end of the problems with USB boot and getting PCIe slots recognised and working.
Only only the Gigabyte Company could tell you why they would set up something as Fxxcked Up as that.

That certainly is eff'ed up. I figured it had something to do with the BIOS, or boot device settings. I only run Gigabyte mobos, and now that you say it, I tried to run a linux bootable usb stick to secure erase my SSD, and had serious troubles, so I just put it on a bootable DVD and it ran with no problem.