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    Question Please can anyone help with this SATA drive locking out BIOS problem?

    Hi, Thanks for the reply. I changed the BIOS setting one at a time and then changed them back. There were not too many concerning the drives. Nothing altered the situation of one disk working but three others causing the BIOS to lock up. I then removed the CMOS battery for a few mins to reset...
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    Question Please can anyone help with this SATA drive locking out BIOS problem?

    Hi, Thanks for the reply, here is the information in the required format. Not sure there is anything useful, though... CPU: Intel i3 CPU cooler: It has one, no idea what it is, but it has worked successfully for several years. Motherboard: Avantech AIMB-274 Ram: 2 x 8Gb SSD/HDD: Seagate...
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    Question Please can anyone help with this SATA drive locking out BIOS problem?

    I had a working system - AIMB-274 motherboard, Windows 10 and Seagate 500G laptop drive to boot from. 16G memory. It died - the disk became corrupt. I had a clone which I replaced it with but got in a mess trying to get it going again. Short story, the PSU had leaking capacitors and the...