Added an SSD to the optical drive of an Acer Aspire 5560 and it won't boot. Black screen.

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The SSD is tested and working in another laptop's optical drive. The optical drive works fine for a DVD player and the computer runs smoothly when the SSD is not in the optical drive. The SSD is formatted to FAT32. I just get a black screen with lights showing that it's on and charging. I have not replaced the hard drive with the SSD in this laptop because it has no OS. Is this a formatting issue or an electrical issue? Or something else?

Update: Not an external drive. I'm using an optical drive caddy with an SSD in it http://www.ebay.ca/itm/like/291996219705. I already have one working on another laptop. Don't need an OS as it's only for storage.
 
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Ok well yes you've both read it wrong.

You take out the optical drive, pop in a caddy with the SSD/HDD in it and you now have yourself two hardrives or an SSD/HDD combo. I'm currently using 1tb HDD and 120gb SD on my acer v3-571 but the 5560 just gives me a black screen. It's not an external drive. There is no OS because the HDD has Windows 7 on it.



http://www.ebay.ca/itm/like/291996219705 ... So since you didn't know these existed I'm assuming you don't know the answer.
 
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Not the best way to ask for help.
 
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Yeah I see how it would be confusing. I'll have to try and reformat it to see how that goes. Thanks.
 
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I still can't even get to the BIOS. This is really strange. I'll see what other tinkering I can try. Again, I'm not trying to boot an os from the ssd, I'm just trying to boot from the existing hard drive and use the ssd as storage.
 
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No luck when changing the format type. I'm going to try to switch the ssd with the hdd but that's kind of a last ditch effort. Any other ideas?

Didn't work. Still the same black screen.

I saw a post where a 5560g had a black screen doing the same thing because the BIOS needed to be updated. I'm going to have to figure out how to flash BIOS properly then try that. I really can't afford to screw up this computer!!
 
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I flashed the new 1.15 version of the BIOS, still had a black screen but what I did is started the computer then once I saw the windows symbol I popped in the SSD. It recognizes it so that's an OK workaround but does anyone know of any other ideas I should try? I'm assuming when I restart this computer it'll just hang on the black screen indefinitely.
 
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Anyone? Any other ideas? Like I said it seems to work if I turn on the computer then insert the SSD, but I wouldn't want to have to carry around a screwdriver to take out the optical drive any time I needed to restart it.
 
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