Hi everyone,
Had my PC for a while and it was built for me by my own father about two years ago as a Christmas present. Sadly, I'm a gamer and it has very little storage space on it. (232 gb to be exact.) It's a solid state drive and I don't particularly want to replace it due to the finances that would come with doing so. So, we opted to have a second drive attached to my PC, one with 1TB of data that I could use, so my computer stop crying about low storage space whenever I want to play a game.
We went ahead and tried two different drives, one with 1TB, and other with a little less. However, my computer freezes up terribly when I plug these in and restart my computer. When it gets to bios, and I try to get it to recognize either of these drives, it will often stop for 5-10 minutes, just to get to the bios so that I can look at its settings and get it to boot the drive. It will not pick up the two drives whatsoever, and won't boot up at all. We've confirmed its not the cable, by using the cable on my SSD to see if it boots up fine, and it does. The moment we remove any of the extra drives, my computer will burst into life again. The drives themselves are fairly new and shouldn't have anything wrong with them, and have been stored carefully for use when we need them, such as now.
My father is a computer programmer, and is pretty good with computers themselves, but even he is completely boggled as to why my computer is behaving this way, considering it USED to be okay with a second drive. (However, that had to be removed when my computer was having a phase of overheating too frequently, which has since been fixed.)
I'll add a couple of my system specs, ignore if they're irrelevant~
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z68XP-UD3 (Socket 1155)
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB ATA Device (SSD)
Thanks in advanced, everyone! I hope I can get this fixed.
Had my PC for a while and it was built for me by my own father about two years ago as a Christmas present. Sadly, I'm a gamer and it has very little storage space on it. (232 gb to be exact.) It's a solid state drive and I don't particularly want to replace it due to the finances that would come with doing so. So, we opted to have a second drive attached to my PC, one with 1TB of data that I could use, so my computer stop crying about low storage space whenever I want to play a game.
We went ahead and tried two different drives, one with 1TB, and other with a little less. However, my computer freezes up terribly when I plug these in and restart my computer. When it gets to bios, and I try to get it to recognize either of these drives, it will often stop for 5-10 minutes, just to get to the bios so that I can look at its settings and get it to boot the drive. It will not pick up the two drives whatsoever, and won't boot up at all. We've confirmed its not the cable, by using the cable on my SSD to see if it boots up fine, and it does. The moment we remove any of the extra drives, my computer will burst into life again. The drives themselves are fairly new and shouldn't have anything wrong with them, and have been stored carefully for use when we need them, such as now.
My father is a computer programmer, and is pretty good with computers themselves, but even he is completely boggled as to why my computer is behaving this way, considering it USED to be okay with a second drive. (However, that had to be removed when my computer was having a phase of overheating too frequently, which has since been fixed.)
I'll add a couple of my system specs, ignore if they're irrelevant~
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z68XP-UD3 (Socket 1155)
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB ATA Device (SSD)
Thanks in advanced, everyone! I hope I can get this fixed.
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