Help! My 5740G won't boot!

Hey guys,

I finally got my optical drive HDD caddy and installed a perfectly working 320GB HDD pulled from a macbook pro.

after installing it and putting the caddy into where the optical drive was, the computer would start up and display that it found 2 fixed drive and then mouse initialized.
After this... the computer just hangs. Nothing. When i press any key on the keyboard, i get a loud system beep.

I cannot even enter bios setup.

when i press F2 continuously to enter the BIOS only results the "entering setup..." to be displayed for 2 seconds, and then disappear... nothing... computer hangs again

THis do not happen if i pull out the new HDD i added.

computer boots find with or w/o the optical drive.

any one know what is going on?

much help appreciated

 

Is the new HDD blank, not marked as active etc

 

nah, i forgot to have the disk formatted.

it is still formatted as mac os extended journaled with a GPT partition table.

does that prevent booting??

i feel like my computer is stuck at the bios level?

 

I have never tried that configuration . . but to stick before F2 stage it has taken a dislike to something and two active partitions on the system will annoy a lot of bioses

 

so you think the acer BIOS is saying 'NO NO, you cannot have 2 hard drives on me" ??

 

No, but both drives will potentially be saying they are a boot drive and the Bios may not understand much else the Mac one says. To be simple if you have another unformatted or cleaned of partitions notebook drive stick that in the caddy. Alternatively boot the laptop then insert the new HDD - if it doesn't mount there's your problem

 

hey,

so i figured out... pretty simple. I just updated my BIOS to 1.16, and everything works..
i guess i had the outdated 1.09 BIOS that was causing the problem

 

Excellent.