Hiya.
I recently upgraded for the first time since August 2009 from:
AMD Phenom X2 550 BE, RoG Crosshair III Formula Mobo, 4gb DDR3, Geforce 250GTS, 320gb Seagate Barracuda HDD (60+260 partitions)
to:
Intel i5 6600, RoG Maximus VIII Hero Mobo, 16gb DDR4, Geforce 760gtx, Samsung 850 250gb sata SSD (OS), 3tb internal WD HDD.
I had an internal 1tb HDD start dying on me and before it gave up the fight I moved all my games and media to an emergency external WD Elements 3tb USB3
drive. Both the old and new PC's ran/are running Windows Ultimate SP1 64 (When I finally managed to install and boot into it but that's another story.
TLDR: USB bootdisk wasn't working so went the DVD route followed by a BIOS update to get to desktop)
My current issue is this:
The old PC booted up fine with the 3tb WD external connected at startup along with another WD 1tb external. When I try to boot the new PC with the external
drives connected however, it either boots straight to BIOS , where I choose the windows bootable Samsung 250, only to either be returned to BIOS again or to repair windows
or startup windows normally. Choosing either of these two options either loops me back to the the same screen or back to BIOS. If I then switch computer off,
unplug the drives and start up, it gets to the login screen with absolutely no problem.
I have checked the boot devices and only the Windows bootable 250 is selected. All other options are disabled.
Is there a BIOS option that could affect this that I am not aware of or what might be going on?
Thank you very much for any possible help.
Shout if any additional info is required.