There seems to be a ton of these threads both on these forums and outside of these forums. I'm starting to wonder if this program is actually even able to do what it advertises. Needless to say, I'm pretty disappointed. I am trying to install win7 on an older system; obviously the BIOS does not have the option to boot from USB for some reason. I found this strange because the motherboard has 4 USB ports. Anyways, to my problem I am hoping you can solve...
Using the most recent version of PloP, 5.0.15. Same story as a million other people: I have my USB stick inserted into a USB port, I have my plop ISO on a CD in the cd drive, and it loads up fine. When I try to select the USB option, it freezes and crashes, and forces me to reboot. The message is always the two messages, either it freezes after 'HOST 1' or it freezes immediately after detecting the USB device. I have tried everything imaginable. I have played with all of the different settings, and different combinations of settings. I've also tried these different combinations of settings on ALL of my different USB ports. I have two USB ports in the front for convenience, 4 in the back on the motherboard, and 2 more from a serial card connected to the motherboard, for a total of 8 different ports. Please don't tell me to remove any other USB devices/bluetooth/etc., I can absolutely assure you that there are no USB devices attached and that isn't what is causing the program to not work.
Any ideas? I suspect it just simply doesn't work.
Here is the messages I always see, if interested:
LOADING EHCI DRIVER
SEARCHING ON HOSTS
HOST 1
If I turn on 'Force USB1.1', it is unable to find the USB stick, regardless of which port I put it in. This is the message I always get if I force USB1.1:
LOADING UHCI DRIVER
SEARCHING ON HOSTS
HOST 1
HOST 2
HOST 3
HOST 4
DRIVER REMOVED
LOADING DHCI DRIVER
SEARCHING ON HOSTS
DRIVER REMOVED
BOOT ERROR
NO BOOT DEVICE FOUND, PLEASE RETRY IT