Ah yes, the BIOS lists the devices as IDE, but they're really SATA, so I mix the acronymns -- Greg
On 31 December 2013 12:42, Katherine Moss <katherine.m...@gordon.edu> wrote: > Not that I know of, but I hope you mean … SATA? > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:55 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* [OT] Machine restart lock-up > > > > Folks, since I installed a fresh Windows 7 in a SanDisk 256GB SSD last > weekend my machine has developed an irritating disease: It locks up when > restarted/rebooted. Only by turning the power off and then back on will it > restart. Unless the power is turned off, a restart locks up at the end of > the list of IDE devices in the BIOS screen. The only hardware change since > last week is the replacement of a 1TB HDD with the SSD, which resulted in > some IDE cables moving around to different slots. > > > > Before I start randomly moving cables around I thought I'd ask here just > in case some hardware boffins might have seen this sort of thing before. Do > SSD and HDD have to be in a certain physical cable order? Are the various > IDE slots different? > > > > Greg K >
