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Why does disabling ATA fix "run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config" in FreeBSD?
Why did it work?
Why did the 5. step solve the problem? What is so special about disabling ATA which removed the run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config error?
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BIOS hangs when SATA drive is attached, works with hotplug
The American Megatrends BIOS (latest version as of manufacturer) of a Shuttle XPC SH87R6 hangs at the very beginning (not even showing the CPU type) whenever a WD 3.0TB SATA harddisk is attached. It's ...
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Asmedia 106x SATA Controller preventing boot
Recently I bought a DeLOCK 89384 PCIe card with 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports.
However, after installing it, I'd get the message below, preventing the OS
to boot and after a few seconds I'd get a reboot and ...
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HDD not booting or (consistently) showing up in BIOS
I have an Asus X555DA laptop that hadn't been booting. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what caused this previous problem. In an attempt to fix it I tried to install Ubuntu. Although the ...
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Silicon Image 3114 SATA PCI card modifies boot order and prevents from booting from CD
I have an old spare machine (P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GiB RAM) which I'd like to reuse as a small home media/archive server with a few SATA disks. I do have an Asus P4PE with BIOS version 1007 and obtained a ...
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SSD appears to become disconnected from computer randomly each day
The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB drive.
I've been dealing with an issue for at least the past month where around once a day my computer will completely freeze. The first go around, I was pretty ...
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System won't boot if I connect SATA hard disk
I had an old PC with an Atom processor, two SATA hard disks with 40 GB and 160 GB each.
Recently I upgraded my PC, got a Gigabyte H61M DS2 Motherboard, 2 GB of RAM and Core I3 processor.
But ...
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Can I boot Windows 10 installed on a SATA SSD/HDD from USB3 via SATA to USB adapter?
First of all I'm not trying to clone.
I just have a laptop with a dead internal SATA port. The drive is still alive and I want to boot via a USB3 adapter.
It gets part way through the boot when it ...
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Centos 4.8 not booting after replacement disk controller
I have a quite old Centos 4.8 backup. Root partition is on LVM. (/dev/mapper/centos-root).
This backup (tar.gz archive) works fine if i restore it in Vmware cluster with SCSI controller.
But now i ...
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Partial boot after replacing SATA controller
I am just a hobbyist who has had pretty good success dealing with computer issues by finding good instructions, following them and researching troubleshooting when something didn't work. So when an ...
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INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE M.2 SATA
I'm absolutely at my wits' end with this issue: I'm getting INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE when cloning a M.2 SATA SSD to an NVMe one. I can always format and reinstall Windows but nevertheless, I would ...
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Ability to selectively boot Windows 10 from two separate drives on same PC
I have an ASUS Maximus XI Hero Wifi Motherboard with three drives attached: a m.2 Samsung 970 EVO, a SATA Samsung 860 EVO, and a big SATA WD Red old fashioned spinner. The m.2 970 EVO has my Win 10 ...
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SSD only booting when connected with USB, not with SATA
I'm trying to connect a SSD to my Windows 10 IoT device via SATA but when I try to boot I get a BSOD during startup saying Incompatible boot device. One or two times I also got the error saying that ...
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Cloned windows to SSD, but not in boot sequence and no OS found
Machine is a Dell Optiplex 380 (refurbished) with Windows 10 preinstalled.
I installed a Drevo SSD and since I moved the DVD sata cable from it's slot in the motherboard and connected the SSD there ...
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Windows 10 refuses to install on certain drive
A couple days ago I bought new notebook without OS. At first I installed Windows 10 on stock HDD drive - everything went ok. Then I decided to replace it with with SSD from my old laptop which is ...
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