Im having a difficult time trying to figure this out.
I formatted and reinstalled Windows 7 64 bit and on the next boot, it froze in the POST "detecting AHCI Port 0". I disconnected the drive and rebooted and boots (to nothing because the drive is out and my OS is on that drive). I went ahead and unplugged the HDD SATA so the BIOS wouldn't freeze, and rebooted and brought up the boot device selection menu. I plugged in the HDD but I booted SeaTools for DOS.
SeaTools had no issues at all seeing the drive. I thought at this point it was going to fail the short test so I ran. In my surprise, it did not fail the short test, which basically every time I've had a bad drive, it failed the short test.
Long test also just finished passing as well so it would point that the hard drive is good. Could there be another reason the BIOS suddenly does not want to correctly detect the drive and stalls? I've switched cables and ports just in case but no difference.
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