Recent content by HomeyJay

Ok, thanks GiGaBiTe, now fixed. It turned out that using a DVI connector from the PC to the monitor for some reason meant that anything that was in the DOS display modes of the pre-Windows phase of boot, wasn’t being displayed at all. I was already in the BIOS but just couldn’t see it! When I...

Thx but because the bios has been reset, the MB can’t find the SSD - it seems to be looking for a RAID setup or something else. SATA needs to be set to AHCI mode, can’t do that because, I can’t acces the bios. Its a doozy..

I’ve been pressing the F2 key several times a second continually from the instant I’ve turned the machine on add sometimes I’ve started pressing the key before I’ve turned the machine on just in case I’ve not been fast enough!. I’ve even kept the F2 key constantly pressed but the buffer just...

I have dedicated function keys (F1 - F12) on the keyboard so actual Function key. F12 doesn’t get you anywhere either but I’ve not tried different USB ports. Will try that. No mouse present, just keyboard. Will also unplug the cd drive, just in case that makes a difference. Also going to try...

I have a T3500 Xeon workstation with a 250gb Samsung SSD. I’m running out of space and SSDs are crazy cheap compared to what I paid for the 250gb so I bought a 1TB SSD and installed in a spare SATA bay. When I turned the machine on, it powered up and got into windows but the new SSD was not to...