installed SSD and - black screen...

Feb 22, 2018
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I installed a SSD on my ASUS K95VM laptop. I kept the old HDD for storage and installed the OS on the SSD. Now comes the strange part. After restart laptop boots normally, I can see both HDD, all is OK. BUT after shut down, or when I start laptop later, screen does not lit, is completely black, no flashing underscore, nothing at all. I can't enter bios. No signal on external monitor connected to VGA port. Power led is normal green, hdd led flashes but no signal whatsoever.
What I tried: pressed the power button until laptop shuts down, removed power cable and battery and waited a few minutes than put it all back. Laptop starts and sometimes screen starts also. Other times I keep starting from the button (and consecutively hold the power button down to shud down if no screen signal) until it's starts. I disabled the fast boot from windows - still the same. bios is in uefi mode, both hdd ar GPT. A, if I remove one of HDD, no matters which one, it works, laptop boots with SSD or says no system disk with the old HDD.
 

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Splendid
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Looking through the disassembly video for your laptop, I'm assuming you used the SSD caddy/ODD bay to populate it with your SSD? If so can you pass on a link to your SSD caddy? You should also inspect if the caddy has a toggle switch to the left of the unit/device. I could be assuming wrong for which it'd help us two fold if you could pass on an image of the way you've got two drives in that footprint.

You forgot to mention the OS you're trying to boot into. On another note, are you on the latest BIOS update for your laptop?