Computer not responding after installing new SSD

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I installed a new SSD, put on Windows 7. It worked initially, but wouldn't connect to the internet (it apparently wouldn't recognize the ethernet port on the motherboard). Switched back and forth between my HDD and SSD updating motherboard driver, graphics card, and SSD firmware. After the SSD update, the computer no longer recognizes the keyboard/any input. It goes to the "choose which windows 7 to boot" screen and freezes until timing out and going to that "insert windows restore disc". Can't get into the bios. Keyboard worked fine until final reboot after firmware update. Any ideas?

specs:

1 x Rosewill FBM-01-450P Dual Fans MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case with 450W power supply

1 x AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7660D AD580KWOHJBOX

1 x Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - OEM

1 x MSI FM2-A55M-E33 FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

2 x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9S-4GBXL
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• 1 x MSI N650TI-1GD5/V1 GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card

1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive CT120M500SSD1
 
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Connect just the SSD and do a clean install.
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fresh install



 
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will do when i get home from work. hopefully will have an update from my new working SSD.
 
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Took out HDD, all it says now is "bootmgr is missing press Ctrl alt del to restart" keyboard still not recognized and have to hard power down. Can't get into BIOS

Update: tried just HDD, back to original problem
 
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Connect just the SSD and do a clean install.
 
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So the keyboard finally worked again, after the computer had been off for a while. Not sure what happened, but thanks for the help!

Also, now how do I connect my HDD without screwing everything up?
 
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Glad your computer is working!

Regarding the second (old) HDD, first save all the files you need on to a different drive (not to the SSD). Then connect the old HDD to the computer and then format it NTFS. Then run HDTune on this disk just to make sure that the disk is good and healthy. If it passes, you may use it as additional storage.

There are a few ways that you can connect the old HDD to the computer. One way is to connect it via the SATA port on the motherboard just like you are adding a disk to the system. Another way is to connect it as an external disk via the computer's USB port, but in order to do this you will need an external drive enclosure. If you choose this method you can use the drive as an external drive and connect it to any computer via USB.

Let me know if you need any further information.
 
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Thanks for the insight. I have since rehooked it up to the computer via SATA, and made sure in BIOS the SDD was the only thing to boot. Was planning on putting my steam library on my network drive, reformatting it, then putting them back on there, which I believe is how you explained it above.

Thanks again for all the guidance.
 
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