Changing bios so boot from USB flash drive

[Madpuppy]

How can I update my bios to allow booting from a USB Flash drive. My bios is American Megatrends 6.07, 5/4/2011 and the only options are CD, Hard Drive, floppy. Is there a way to change this? In testing the Windows 10 Repair Disc I created, my system froze at the 'choose keyboard layout' blue screen. I could not use the usb mouse or usb keyboard. As a result, I had to recover my system back to windows 7 using my Norton Ghost recovery disk and the backups I had made before the downloading windows 10.

[old_geekster]

@Madpuppy, welcome to the forum.

Here is the Software and Driver Downloads for the computer.  There are two BIOS updates listed.  The 6.70 Rev. A states the following in the Details section:

Version 6.07 Rev. A

Fix and enhancements

- Adjusts fan speed curve.
- Updates the Video BIOS to properly size the display on the screen.
- Improves compatibility with FreeDOS.
- Updates Vision Diagnostics on systems with older BIOS revisions.

- Resolves an issue with detecting the Samsung 750GB hard disk drive after resuming from hibernate mode.
- Resolves issue that occurs when booting from USB optical drives.
- Resolves issue that occurs when resuming from hibernate mode on systems with 4GB memory or higher.

I am not certain that the fact that it resolves issues when booting from USB optical drives means that it will boot from USB thumb drives or not, but it is worth a try.  Just be extremely careful with the flash.  If it fails you have a great boat anchor.

Please click the Thumbs up + button if I have helped you and click Accept as Solution if your problem is solved.

[Madpuppy · Accepted solution]

After opening the bios and clicking the default hard drive, I found that I had choices including the USB Flash drive that I had just pugged in before rebooting. This answered my question. Thanks to all for their input. It was not necessary to flash the bios after all.

[old_geekster]

You are very welcome, @Madpuppy.  I am glad that your problem is solved.