(Redirected) USB Flash Drive Boot (BiOS) - black screen/freeze/without end of loading - need help!

Hello community Dell:

I have been using your Inspiron desktop for work. Work requires me to a startup USB flash drive every morning to access work files and programs. I just press F12 and select the USB flash drive that brings me then in a workplace Ubuntu after entering my credentials - very easy.

I recently bought the X 51 office because I wanted the game after work and it was intended to replace the Inspiron.

X 51 issues (boot BiOS - secure boot off as with the Inspiron):

UEFI = I get a black screen after the "loading...". ', it freezes the whole system

Legacy = told me to restart the system and drive and the message repeats little matter what you press

I tried USB different slots, ending different to access USB - nothing works!

I tested another theory that would disable the GPU of the X 51, but this proved futile because the problems themselves was replicated. The GPU is the only unique component between two desktop computers. CPU is i3, i5 vs, vs 4g 8g, 1 TB vs. 2 TB, so I do not see these improvements of specification being the culprit. The X 51 has a different unique Alienware BiOS interface.

The X 51 will be returned to Dell unless someone can some up with a solution - I would be eternally grateful, thank you.

Better in this position in the Alienware owners Club Forum, here:

http://en.community.Dell.com/Owners-Club/Alienware/default.aspx

Bev.

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