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Brannigans Law · 11-25-2012, 02:02 PM

I figured since there's a lot of day to day quirks computers throw at us a general thread for this type of thing could be useful.

I recently upgraded my computer to a SSD drive and kept the SATA I have as a media drive. Everything works perfect and I'm thrilled with the SSD but I now notice that when I turn my computer on there's a flashing underscore " _ "for about 20~ seconds. Once it stops it loads into the boot devices. I figure there's something happening in my BIOS that's hanging and doing a check before it loads the boot sequence. The only thing I can think of is I totally unhooked my HDD thin and wide ribbon cable from my MOBO as it wasn't actually connected to anything.

Any ideas?

11-25-2012, 02:02 PM	#1
Brannigans Law First Line Centre Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Calgary AB Exp:	PC General troubleshooting & Questions thread I figured since there's a lot of day to day quirks computers throw at us a general thread for this type of thing could be useful. I recently upgraded my computer to a SSD drive and kept the SATA I have as a media drive. Everything works perfect and I'm thrilled with the SSD but I now notice that when I turn my computer on there's a flashing underscore " _ "for about 20~ seconds. Once it stops it loads into the boot devices. I figure there's something happening in my BIOS that's hanging and doing a check before it loads the boot sequence. The only thing I can think of is I totally unhooked my HDD thin and wide ribbon cable from my MOBO as it wasn't actually connected to anything. Any ideas?