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M5a78l-m usb3 not booting from hdd

dr777669

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Oct 8, 2015
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Other specs
Cpu amd athlon 2 dual core 3.0ghz
RAM g skill 8 gb 1866 mhm
Psu cx750m
So I recently purchased this motherboard for a cheap build for a server build but I encountered a problem with booting. The motherboard posts and everything detects my hard drive and all but it's when I boot I get the problem it tells me to insert a boot device the usual things it says when it can't find a os I have a western digital 1 tb hard drive that works fine in 2 previous builds and has windows 10 installed but when I install Windows 10 on a old hdd (the thing has 160gb) through a usb on the same motherboard it boots just fine I also tested it with a 4 tb seagate hdd on the motherboard with the problem and the same problem occurs
 


but is there any way I can have it work?
or do I have to have a new hdd