Primary SSD refusing to boot after disconnecting secondary (storage) HDD. What's happening? gaming computer builder

Hi gang, I'm having a very weird issue with my homebuilt monster machine and I need a little help.

NOTE The machine has been working fine for more than 2 years prior to this point. It's not a new build, I just made a minor change and this happened.

My machine has 2 hard drives. The one that runs everything, that has the Windows install and is the primary boot device is a 128GB Kingston SSD. When I first built the machine, this was the only drive and it booted and ran just fine. At the time, I had a 2TB external HDD with all my movies and stuff on it. It was on a dock and connected via USB. For the sake of condensing the number of wires and power supplies I had to deal with, I eventually mounted the 2TB HDD inside the case and ran power and SATA to it. I was able to assign it a drive name and access it within Windows and it worked fine. The main drive (SSD) is C: and the Big Drive is D:. Both have been fully operational for years.

I recently decided to set up a Network Attached Storage device. I unmounted the Big Drive to plug it into the NAS brick and move everything over...only to find that once the Big Drive was unplugged, my computer will no longer boot. It flashes the BIOS screen, then loads a black screen with this message:

"Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key."

If I plug the Big Drive back into the internal SATA where it was, it boots like nothing ever happened. Unplug it, same error message. I have gone into the BIOS and made sure the SSD is the designated boot device. The BIOS can see it there, it is working. I know the Windows install is on the SSD, NOT the Big Drive, because as I said the SSD was originally the only drive installed in the machine and the Big Drive is strictly used for storage. But for some reason, the computer now thinks that it cannot boot without the Big Drive mounted to D:.

Does anyone have an idea what is happening and how I can correct it?

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good cpu cooler for i7 6700k? gaming computer builder

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should i buy a 1800x or a 1700? gaming computer builder

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Good and FREE file recovery software. Desperate for help :( gaming computer builder

I accidentally deleted an MP4 video from my computer that I really needed. I've tried many different softwares to try recover the lost MP4 but they either don't find it at all or find something that looks similar (meaning a file with today's date but different text E.G "Tddg64X2d") only to find that when I try recover it it asks for me to pay to recover my own files.

Please help! I'm desperate for help after 5 hours of searching.

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Wireless solution for Laptop second monitor gaming computer builder

I have a nice desktop, and nicer laptop (Dell XPS 13). The laptop is modern and portable and powerful, and I am doing more and more work on the laptop. However, I miss the benefits of a large screen. Sadly, my desktop is too old to make use of wireless display adapters, and the laptop, infuriatingly, lacks an HDMI port.

What are my options for expanding my laptop's display to a second? Ideally, I'd like to use the two displays side-by-side and drag and drop between them. For example, if I'm doing some audio mixing, I'd have the project on the main display, and faders and mix controls on the second screen.

A few notes - the XPS only has two USB ports, both of which are used by other hardware. It does have a Thunderbolt port, however. Wireless would be the preferred method, however.

Thanks.

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Possible Memory Leak gaming computer builder

I'm currently running windows 10 on my machine. I've noticed recently that when I boot up after everything initializes I'm running at about a 10% ram usage. The ram is dual channel slot 1 and 3 and two 8gb sticks for 16 total. After running for a while running games, internet, and OBS I start to slow way down. When I close out of everything I have running and check my ram usage it's at around a constant 75-85% with everything closed. The only fix I've found is to completely restart and it fixes the problem. So What I'm trying to figure out is how do I find out if its a memory leak or something else.

(TL;DR) Possible memory leak, how do I know for sure, and how do I fix?

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I Can't Access Bios? Halp? gaming computer builder

Pc is running Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 motherboard with Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 8gb graphics card.

This problem was identified after a user complained the screen kept going black randomly and nothing helped other than manual reset/shutdown. Went though all amd driver-related troubleshooting (full clean and update) and windows-related (full os restore after a bunch of setting adjustments), but the blackouts got worse. Now the display cuts out after about 60 seconds of being booted up, regardless of windows in safe mode. It even happened during a windows os reset.

So I tried to access the bios to check display settings but... no access? Huh? Bios/motherboard loadup screen does not appear no matter what, it just goes straight to windows. Safe mode, slamming the f2/delete key, unplugging everything (including one or two hard drives)... I just can't bring up bios. I thought about clearing CMOS but not sure if that would help.

Some background... the pc was recently upgraded to six drives, so it has 2 hdd's, 3 ssd's and a hybrid. But its running on a 850 gold psu so I didn't think it would be an issue and its been working fine since we set it up, and when the screen goes black the video card still lights up and lets me know its on 'silent resting mode' so I don't think its a power issue. This pc has been running fine for a while and its pretty high-end... although the motherboard is five years old.

Any thoughts or recommendations? Is the board fried?

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