booting from USB on Pavilion A6400f

[RealGomer]

HP Pavilion A6400f with ASUS IPIBL-LB "Benicia" mobo, BIOS Award 5.43. I need to add the option to boot from the USB port (it has four). Using PLOP is not an option. Is there a way to get this old girl to boot from USB?

[Resolv_S · Accepted solution]

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I was going through your post and would like to help you. Thank you for sharing the issue details.

Unable to do a USB boot. Is that right?

The motherboard on your PC is a Legacy component of which the component doesn’t have any BIOS updates either from HP or ASUS.

You will be unable to do a USB boot from it as there are no patch updates to do so. The only suggestable way to boot is a bootable disc

Hope this helps. Let me know for more.

Happy posting.

Resolv_S

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[RealGomer]

I tried starting the box with a boot disc from another OS and had a USB in the port. Guess what? It recocognized the USB. Woo-hoo.

[Resolv_S]

Hi@RealGomer,

I thank you for the reply.

Glad to see that the PC is working now. Any questions, please reach out to HP forums for further help.

Hope it helps. Happy posting.

Resolv_S

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[RealGomer]

Related but unrelated question. Everything on the box says it's a A6400f. But when I ran a system info app it said the box was a D6400f.  Curiouser and curiouser.

[The_Fossette]

Hi @RealGomer

I thanks for the reply.

I checked and see that the model of your computer is Pavilion A6400f and we do not have any model Pavilion D6400f.

I am not sure why it is showing D6400f in the system info.

Please send me a screen shot of the same so that I can check with the concerned team.

Looking forward to your reply.

Take care. Cheers!