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Odd happenings when adding 2nd SSD/HD to newly built PC
Hi everyone. I've recently taken the plunge and built myself a new PC, after my eight year old home-built machine decided to go pop.
Everything with the new PC works really well, apart from when I add another hard drive into the mix.
I tried to install my old 1TB HD from the other PC, to use as a data drive, but to no avail. As soon as I'd switch everything on, the machine would freeze at the boot splash screen, unless I removed the data cable from it. Plug the drive into a caddy, and it ran fine, with no errors on Crystal Disk Info......
Gave up with that drive, and formatted/installed my old 250GB Hynix SSD, which seemed to be going better........until the machine started acting odd - HDMI out of range, drive vanishing from This PC and being unable to access files, when it was working - even the rear case fan's lights got stuck on until I gave everything a hard reset.
I'm at a loss as to what could be causing this. It's running a clean install of Windows 10 Home and all the drivers I can think of are installed and updated.
I've tried to use different SATA connections on the mainboard and different SATA cables, but no luck.
Could it be down to a setting in the BIOS? as the PC freezes before booting into windows?
I tried to update the Bios, but Gigabyte's software would have none of it!
Thanks in advance
Windows 10.0.19042 Build 19042
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