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got my rig all up and running last night, installed windows 7, installed all missing drivers, installed chrome, set my resolution and desktop size, etc - standard new pc setup stuff. Had it running perfect. Here's the catch - the case does not have an available 5.25 bay available for the cd rom drive which was my intention. I don't see myself needing one what with games being digital download now and worst case scenario i get an external usb for future emergencies.
So, PC is all set up like i like it and running smooth at this point. I had one thing left to do - wipe the auxiliary hard drive that i use for storage/game installs. I pop east-tec disposesecure disk back in to the cd drive and reboot. I let that drive wipe while i went to bed (1tb 7200rpm drive took about 2hrs to wipe).
Then this morning, I power it down, remove the CD drive and accompanying sata cable, and power it back up. It posts fine so there's no hardware issue and i can get into the bios, but It seems like it's still trying to boot from the non existent CD drive because i get a black screen that says something along the lines of "reboot and select bootable drive or insert media" (that's not word for word, but those were the instructions essentially). I have checked the boot priority and it is set to SSD first, then HDD (no cd drive present in bios). Still get the same message when trying to boot up. I even disabled boot option 2 and just had the SSD be the only option with the same results. I took the cmos battery out for a few minutes and put it back in. upon power up, i got the "bios has been reset" message and chose the "reset to optimum defaults" option and restarted... same thing happened.
At this point I'm not sure what to do. A co-worker with an IT background suggested trying to plug the CD rom drive back in, enter bios, and make sure that it is a lower boot priority than the SSD, save, then take it back out and see what happens. I will try that today when i get off work, but other than that, is there anything else you guys might be able to think of in the meantime? Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to make sure you had all the details so i didn't potentially crucial out.
got my rig all up and running last night, installed windows 7, installed all missing drivers, installed chrome, set my resolution and desktop size, etc - standard new pc setup stuff. Had it running perfect. Here's the catch - the case does not have an available 5.25 bay available for the cd rom drive which was my intention. I don't see myself needing one what with games being digital download now and worst case scenario i get an external usb for future emergencies.
So, PC is all set up like i like it and running smooth at this point. I had one thing left to do - wipe the auxiliary hard drive that i use for storage/game installs. I pop east-tec disposesecure disk back in to the cd drive and reboot. I let that drive wipe while i went to bed (1tb 7200rpm drive took about 2hrs to wipe).
Then this morning, I power it down, remove the CD drive and accompanying sata cable, and power it back up. It posts fine so there's no hardware issue and i can get into the bios, but It seems like it's still trying to boot from the non existent CD drive because i get a black screen that says something along the lines of "reboot and select bootable drive or insert media" (that's not word for word, but those were the instructions essentially). I have checked the boot priority and it is set to SSD first, then HDD (no cd drive present in bios). Still get the same message when trying to boot up. I even disabled boot option 2 and just had the SSD be the only option with the same results. I took the cmos battery out for a few minutes and put it back in. upon power up, i got the "bios has been reset" message and chose the "reset to optimum defaults" option and restarted... same thing happened.
At this point I'm not sure what to do. A co-worker with an IT background suggested trying to plug the CD rom drive back in, enter bios, and make sure that it is a lower boot priority than the SSD, save, then take it back out and see what happens. I will try that today when i get off work, but other than that, is there anything else you guys might be able to think of in the meantime? Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to make sure you had all the details so i didn't potentially crucial out.
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