👨‍🏫 Tutorial Hey everyone, I'm dealing with a persistent black-screen freeze on an Acer laptop whenever an SSD with a corrupted OS is present at boot. I've current

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I’m dealing with a persistent boot freeze on my older Acer motherboard. It seems like the BIOS hangs as soon as it tries to initialize the internal SSD.

My Plan:

1. Disconnect the SSD.
2. Boot into the F12 Boot Manager using a Live Linux Mint USB.
3. Once I’m at the menu, "hot-plug" the SSD back in.
4. Try to select the USB to boot into Mint, hoping the SSD is now accessible for recovery/formatting without having triggered the initial POST freeze.

The Issues:

• I only have one functioning port (and HDMI isn't outputting when I try to plug it in during the freeze).
• I’m worried the BIOS won’t "poll" for the new SATA/NVMe device once the Boot Manager is already open.

Questions:

1. Has anyone successfully tried this hot-plug method on older Acer hardware?
2. Is it safer to wait until I am fully booted into the Linux Mint Live environment before plugging the SSD in?
3. Are there high risks of frying the controller if I hot-plug a SATA/NVMe drive on these older consumer boards?

Any advice or "don't do this" warnings are appreciated!

 

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I tried removing the SSD and then inserting my bootable USB to access the F12 Boot Manager. When I do this, the USB shows up perfectly. However, if I insert both the SSD and the bootable USB at the same time, I cannot access the BIOS. Whether I press F2 or F12, the screen just stays black.

 

[PHC-ILULU]

if its old laptop maybe its hardware issue already