- Dec 9, 2017
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Good day everyone,
I'm trying to help my uncle out and give him a computer he can actually use. He got severely taken advantage of by a computer shop near where he lives. From all the testing I've done with his computer, the motherboard had severe problems. DOA. So I'm going to give him my old system, an Intel 920, gigabyte x58 motherboard 6gb ram. I'm trying to just toss his old ssd, the above mentioned WD Blue 250GB SATA SSD, into the setup and let him have at it. But every time i go to boot up it recognize that the drive is there but it's like it doesn't want to boot from it. It says nothing about can't find the drive or there is something wrong, it just stays there acting like it will do something. It's not locked up, Because i can restart via ctrl-alt-delete. I made sure the drive was visible in the bios. So I swapped drives with a known working one. That one booted fine, so I grabbed my external drive caddy, hooked it up to one of my other computers, and the WD can be read. So, i pulled the ssd on that computer and plugged in the WD and it just stays in the I'm not working state.
So..... What does everyone think this is? I get no errors after it checks for boot from cd drives, the cursor just sits there, blinking, taunting me, laughing at me.
Thanks for any help everyone
PS. I own a sledge hammer 😁
I'm trying to help my uncle out and give him a computer he can actually use. He got severely taken advantage of by a computer shop near where he lives. From all the testing I've done with his computer, the motherboard had severe problems. DOA. So I'm going to give him my old system, an Intel 920, gigabyte x58 motherboard 6gb ram. I'm trying to just toss his old ssd, the above mentioned WD Blue 250GB SATA SSD, into the setup and let him have at it. But every time i go to boot up it recognize that the drive is there but it's like it doesn't want to boot from it. It says nothing about can't find the drive or there is something wrong, it just stays there acting like it will do something. It's not locked up, Because i can restart via ctrl-alt-delete. I made sure the drive was visible in the bios. So I swapped drives with a known working one. That one booted fine, so I grabbed my external drive caddy, hooked it up to one of my other computers, and the WD can be read. So, i pulled the ssd on that computer and plugged in the WD and it just stays in the I'm not working state.
So..... What does everyone think this is? I get no errors after it checks for boot from cd drives, the cursor just sits there, blinking, taunting me, laughing at me.
Thanks for any help everyone
PS. I own a sledge hammer 😁