SSD Help

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 12:37

Hey

Just received an SSD today, plugged it all in, installed windows 8 fine, drivers etc, turned off PC, put connections back into my HDD, changed boot order and now I can't get into windows, the screen just flashes black.. unplugged my HDD and it still does it, my keyboard lights are flashing on and off too

Can any one help?

Cheers

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 12:41

Well, I've unplugged my HDD for now and in the Bios all I can see is my DVD Drive and SSD

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 12:44

No, its not showing up, I'll get a picture up in a sec to show, it might be the way I've connected the two. But even then it should still go into windows even without the hdd plugged in?

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 12:51

Yep BIOS is set to AHCI

Heres a pic

I have no idea why it is yellow, but the red rings are the 2 power cables, also SSD is in a Sata 3 port and the HDD is in sata 2 however, the sata 2 slots on my mobo have two sata cables plugged in

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 13:01

Sata 3 top, Sata 2 bottom, I only have 1 hdd, so not sure why there is 2 cables? in the sata 2 ports

Trying what you said now

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 13:05

Gigabyte GA Z77 D3H

Plugged the 2 sata cables from my HDD in to the Sata 3 but Windows 8 says 'ran into a problem' past the boot screen straight away then restarts my pc

its asking for a system restore

EDIT:

Changed from AHCI and it boots to windows from the hdd with the cables in the Sata 3 ports..

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 13:23

No I changed it, like I said, it booted into Windows 8, so I installed my Audio and USB 3.0 / GFX Card drivers and rebooted then it just posts to a black screen :\

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 13:29

Haven't tried that, ATM I have the HDD plugged into the SATA 3 with AHCI off

I can get into the BIOS with the SSD plugged in, just not into windows or would the above still work?

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 14:15

Yea I can see both my HDD and SSD in the BIOS now

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 14:21

Yea I tried the HDD and it lets me boot into that, but I have to change the thing from ACHI to IDE

Heres the AHCI setting

http://i.cubeupload.com/QbFKxW.jpg

My HDD shows up under

'Hard drive BBS Priorities' and under 'Save & Exit' I can choose to 'Boot overide' with the hdd

caz32 · 7 Dec 2012 at 16:08

Reinstalled Windows 8, not sure if MS have gave me the correct version though, installed a lot of stuff so far and restarted a couple of times and its fine except windows 8 keeps failing on a certain update.. :rolleyes:

Might just turn them off until SP1

EDIT:

Yea apparently my key can only be used on upgrade versions and not clean install.. yet when I installed it last time it accepted the key.. I hate Windows.

EDIT 2:

Incase someone finds this on google, this problem is rare it seems, a motherboard driver must have hurt my windows install or something, not sure how to boot safe mode windows 8 and the repair off the OS disc didn't find any errors so I ended up reinstalling windows 8 and my gfx card drivers, haven't installed mobo drivers incase it messes up again, installed windows updates, applied ssd tweaks and restarted multiple times without error