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caz32

caz32

caz32

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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
 
Well, I've unplugged my HDD for now and in the Bios all I can see is my DVD Drive and SSD
 
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 said:
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?
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Yer get us a picture of the BIOS, since the SSD does show up you might want to just plug the HDD into the SATA port that the SSD was into to rule out the SATA port that your using...

Stelly
 
Yep BIOS is set to AHCI

Heres a pic

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

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Trying what you said now
 
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..
 
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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 :\
 
plug the hdmi or dvi cable from your gpu into the mb ports and see if anything shows up onscreen,you might have to set the gpu as first/main display it will say pci-e or peg set to that in bios then swap display cables over from mb to gpu
 
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?
 
Personally I would get the free version of Macrium Reflect, make a windowsPE rescue CD, plug both hard drives in then boot into the rescue CD. Open up command prompt and type diskpart then lis dis

See if you can see both disks...

Stelly
 
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