I currently use a 2010 computer when USB 3 was fairly new and no M2 hard drives were used. It has a 256 GB SSD with Windows 7 and uses DDR3 RAM.
A friend of mine had a 2017 AlienWare computer (uses DDR4 RAM) where something was messing up, he was pretty certain it was the power supply and gave me the computer. I turned on the computer and power supply sounded like it was gonna blow (also, fan didn't turn on). I replaced the power supply and the computer was able to boot to W10 using his m2 hard drive (that he forgot was in there).
I'll refer to the parts as either '2017' for 'this came from the AlienWare 2017 computer' or '2010' for my older PC, even though the SSD is newer than 2010.
I took out the m2 drive from 2017 and put in my 2010 SSD and gave me a pxe rom failure, media not found. I tried switching SATA cables in the 2017 in case one was bad and that also didn't work (note: I didn't think to take SATA cables from my 2010 and try them in the 2017)
Went into the bios and tried switching boot priority to use IDE, same failure.
I did some searching and thought maybe my SSD is IDE and I need to change to AHCI (which I'm not certain of since the 2017 bios did have an option to choose IDE as the boot mode)
On my 2010 computer I looked at the bios and saw IDE was the only choice, no AHCI (which I had never looked into until this issue). Tried changing windows registry DWORD to 3 (it was 0) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci following a guide from winaero.com. I can boot just fine (this is my 2010). However, then tried going into bios and IDE Controller is all I see for my HDDs and if I changed 'IDE extended' to off, then the machine wouldn't boot. I can't remember the failure and not at home atm. It gave 1-3 options and one of them was repair.
Am I even on the right track? Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong? Only thing I can think of is either:
A: I need to make my SSD into AHCI to get detected
B: The 2017 is 'set' to look at M2 and ignore the SATA cables for some reason
C: The motherboard is looking for that specific M2 drive as a security thing
D: The 2 SATA cables I used just happened to both not work.
E: The power from my working 2010 power supply has at least 1 bad power cable that I just happened to choose (I use nearly all the power connectors, so it's at least possible, but highly doubt this)
My ultimate goal is to take my power supply and HDDs out of my 2010 and into the 2017 with the newer motherboard, DD4 RAM, and newer video card.
A friend of mine had a 2017 AlienWare computer (uses DDR4 RAM) where something was messing up, he was pretty certain it was the power supply and gave me the computer. I turned on the computer and power supply sounded like it was gonna blow (also, fan didn't turn on). I replaced the power supply and the computer was able to boot to W10 using his m2 hard drive (that he forgot was in there).
I'll refer to the parts as either '2017' for 'this came from the AlienWare 2017 computer' or '2010' for my older PC, even though the SSD is newer than 2010.
I took out the m2 drive from 2017 and put in my 2010 SSD and gave me a pxe rom failure, media not found. I tried switching SATA cables in the 2017 in case one was bad and that also didn't work (note: I didn't think to take SATA cables from my 2010 and try them in the 2017)
Went into the bios and tried switching boot priority to use IDE, same failure.
I did some searching and thought maybe my SSD is IDE and I need to change to AHCI (which I'm not certain of since the 2017 bios did have an option to choose IDE as the boot mode)
On my 2010 computer I looked at the bios and saw IDE was the only choice, no AHCI (which I had never looked into until this issue). Tried changing windows registry DWORD to 3 (it was 0) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci following a guide from winaero.com. I can boot just fine (this is my 2010). However, then tried going into bios and IDE Controller is all I see for my HDDs and if I changed 'IDE extended' to off, then the machine wouldn't boot. I can't remember the failure and not at home atm. It gave 1-3 options and one of them was repair.
Am I even on the right track? Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong? Only thing I can think of is either:
A: I need to make my SSD into AHCI to get detected
B: The 2017 is 'set' to look at M2 and ignore the SATA cables for some reason
C: The motherboard is looking for that specific M2 drive as a security thing
D: The 2 SATA cables I used just happened to both not work.
E: The power from my working 2010 power supply has at least 1 bad power cable that I just happened to choose (I use nearly all the power connectors, so it's at least possible, but highly doubt this)
My ultimate goal is to take my power supply and HDDs out of my 2010 and into the 2017 with the newer motherboard, DD4 RAM, and newer video card.