{"id":474,"date":"2011-04-14T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/problems-using-the-next-bios-device-option-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:59:06","slug":"problems-using-the-next-bios-device-option-2","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/problems-using-the-next-bios-device-option-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems using the &#8220;Next BIOS Device&#8221; Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most problems using the <strong>Next BIOS Device<\/strong> option occur because of a misconfiguration or&nbsp;incompatibility. You can take the following measures to help solve&nbsp;problems using it:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Upgrade to the latest version of BootIt BM. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Make sure that you are using it only when attempting to boot from the next bios device and not when booting a normal partition. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Make sure that the device or media&nbsp;from which you are attempting to boot&nbsp;is actually bootable. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Make sure that you are using the <strong>Next BIOS Device<\/strong> option properly, by making sure that the drive or device comes after the hard drive in the boot order listed in the BIOS. (If you have the drive\/device before the hard drive, it may boot, but you'll probably get errors when you attempt to boot the OS; one common one is &quot;INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing&quot;.) <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If the BIOS is set up correctly, and if the problem occurs once the OS starts (or setup), then you may try placing the drive\/device after the floppy (but still after the hard drive). <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If it hangs with a cursor in the upper left, then <strong>Next BIOS Device<\/strong> may simply not work with your system. There are some new&nbsp;mainboards where you must use the <strong>BIOS Sequence<\/strong> option to perform the <strong>Next BIOS device<\/strong> equivalent. In other words, keep the same setup and use the <strong>BIOS Sequence<\/strong> option instead. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If none of the above helps, it may simply be incompatible; you should switch the drive\/device to boot before the hard drive and use&nbsp;the <strong>BIOS Sequence<\/strong> option or, after a simulated boot, press <strong>Ctrl-Alt-Del<\/strong>. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most problems using the Next BIOS Device option occur because of a misconfiguration or&nbsp;incompatibility. You can take the following measures to help solve&nbsp;problems using it: Upgrade to the latest version of BootIt BM. Make sure that you are using it only when attempting to boot from the next bios device and not when booting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1826],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-474","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-bootit-bare-metal-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/474\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}