ASUS P5G41T-M LX: PC Freezes at Splash Window After Connecting Seagate 250G HDD

Hello everyone.
I decided to speed up my old computer and bought a ssd for it. System installed, everything works fine. I also decided to connect the old hard drive (seagate 250G) and this is where the problems begin. After booting, the computer freezes at the asus splash window and hangs like that.
After entering the bios in the boot tab, there is no longer a ssd, there was, of course, previously, there is only a hard drive with no name and a cd-rom.
After disconnecting the old disk, the computer starts normally and there is a ssd in the BIOS.
Where is the problem and how to fix it?
-system windows 7 32bit
-asus P5G41T-M LX board
-4GB memory
- GeForce GT200 128bit 1GB graphics card
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello.

You have not selected in the BIOS again the medium from which to read the PC system. You can when starting ..PC. after it, the system will stop, press F11 and select from the window ... the disk on which you have the system.


You need to change the entry in the BIOS, the reading order of the disk ... and when you enter the system, initialize the new disk, that is, give a letter and format it.

Unless we didn't understand each other. I start the computer, press Delete, enter the bios, but I only have a hard drive and a cd-rom and I have no way to select the ssd because it is not there.

Have your Root BIOS updated to the latest one?

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Check that you have a working data cable (SATA) connected to the drive (SATA cable and drive power cable)

As for the bios, I have to check the version, and when it comes to cables, I'm fine with them.

The 04.04 bios version is one of the oldest. I need to read how to update it.

The latest bios did not help, what's the problem .

Recently I have been working on exactly the same situation with the Asus board (model P5KPL-AM).
When both drives were connected, there was no way to force boot from SSD.
Changing SATA ports, replacing SATA cables, nothing worked.
After disconnecting the HDD, it starts up without any problem.
Unfortunately, it ended up transferring all data to SSD from HDD.

RADU23 wrote:

Recently I have been working on exactly the same situation with the Asus board (model P5KPL-AM).
When both drives were connected, there was no way to force boot from SSD.
Changing SATA ports, replacing SATA cables, nothing worked.
After disconnecting the HDD, it starts up without any problem.
Unfortunately, it ended up transferring all data to SSD from HDD.

Thank you for your help, Pana, in that case, I'm letting go of the topic, it turns out that the problem is more complicated.

I will say more. Look in the BIOS after connecting both drives to the "Main" tab, both will be visible there.
However, only the HDD + DVD / CD disk will be visible in the "Boot" tab.

Tomorrow I will check, I will just add that I connected the HDD while the computer was working and it was also not detected.

Piotr520 wrote:

I will just add that I connected the HDD while the computer was working and it was also not detected.

Do not use this method. You can only damage the CD or the disk.

As there are two disks in the BIOS and it is as it says in # 6 RADU23, the option to buy a separate SATA controller for the PCI-e x1 bus is on the board above the bus for the PCI-e x16 graphics card.

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Piotr520 wrote:

I also decided to connect the old hard drive (seagate 250G) and this is where the problems begin.

Probably another drive will work properly

Today I will fight him again and let you know.

These boards had problems handling disks, and boards with the G41 and 43 chipsets - often with memory support as well. While the DDR3 support was a broader problem that also affected other manufacturers, I am inclined to blame everything else for Asus BIOS. The update / version change usually did not solve any problems. Another thing is the quality of laminates and soldering joints. Asus already often had faults consisting in unstable operation, which very often, after being sent back for warranty, resulted in the failure to find a fault. I have already encountered problems with recognizing disks and memory support with boards on the i945 and i965 chipsets. In this case, it is even difficult to say whether this type of behavior should be treated as an inefficiency or as an incompatibility of the disc with the basic standards.

kiss39 wrote:

Probably another drive will work properly

Unfortunately not. I just tested on WD and Samsung.
It's just that HDD and SSD don't work together.

Hello.
I tried two more disks, same problem.
Will this SATA controller on PCI-e x1 work at 100%?

Hello.
Post by post and it's been a while but I would like to finish the topic. I finally bought a SATA controller for the PCI-e bus as it advised kiss39 and everything works as it should. Thank you for all your help on this part of the topic.

But I have a new problem :D

I have a question for you about copying a disk with DMDE version 2.0.0 10. Where is the jump size set, after encountering bad sectors, so that the copy does not last indefinitely. The disk is copied relatively efficiently to about 50% and then copying practically stops. Nothing happens for hours.

The disk refused to obey overnight. It is visible in the system as two partitions, and that's right, but with no letters assigned, and there's nothing you can do about it. I thought it was electronics and I was looking for a second drive with identical electronics for a long time. Unfortunately, after the swap it is still the same. The disk I bought normally works on electronics from my damaged one.
In Dos it is visible to MHDD, DMDE and I hope that at least some of the data can be saved.

This you are talking about you have a reading problem. And you can do bad sector remapping as described in MHDD?

Info. http://www.korepetycjenowysacz.edu.pl/mhdd-diagnostyka-i-naprawa-dysku-twardego/

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How To Remove Bad Sectors?

If you have any information on the disk and you don't want to lose it, just REMAP

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Remap - a very important option that can be set in two modes On and Off. If Remap is set to Off, we will only test the hard disk and see what condition it is in (if the number of Bad sectors is large, it is not worth repairing such a hard disk, and the repair process itself can be greatly extended). Remember, working on a disk with several or a dozen or so bad sectors is very risky and we should back it up as soon as possible. On the other hand, the On function will try to additionally repair the hard drive. If so far we have not performed the test with the MHDD program, it is worth setting this parameter to OFF, because we want to check the condition of the disk at the beginning, but if there is something wrong with it, we will change the option to ON by making additional changes.

I can do it, but maybe I will throw in the reading from MHDD if it is worth doing at all.

Do not tire the disk with scanning and repairs, just copy as much as you can.

Hello.
I managed to recover all important data, I have a lesson for the future, probably because they were on the D drive, because the C drive is completely inaccessible and not readable. I do not know how I would boast to my spouse that all the photos and videos of the kids from the time when they were bubbles disappeared . I have made a copy for the second disk, but I have to buy another one to copy everything to and it will lie quietly in the cupboard.
And this begs the question, which disk is less unreliable, traditional or SSD?

@ Piotr520

Maybe a point with a disk and data via WIFI or via a USB cable / RJ-45 port

HDD enclosure TRACER Wi-Fi / USB 3.0 HDD 2.5 "/3.5" SATA
Producer: Tracer
Model: TRAOBD45280