boot up Boot Error

[milk carton]

Okay, this has me confused, so I'll try my best to describe my issue clearly and extensively, but no promises.

 

I got a new (to me ) AMD 580 8gb and installed it in my Dell Optiplex 980, after removing a GTX960, I had to bend the tower's frame a little to get it in there, but I figured that trade off was worth it.

 

Anyhow, I got it seated pretty well in the PCI e slot and plugged in my 500 w PSU, with all 8 pins.  At first it had an issue where it wouldn't find any drives, but after a bit of research, I fixed that by just resetting settings to default in the f2 menu.  I also decided to switch back to my gtx 960 to do a clean install of the drivers and such for the new AMD, but now it cannot find a boot device!  I found out that this is related to the hard drive, so I checked its plugs and it hasn't ever given me any reason to think it's going bad or corrupt.  I am currently running the tests. 

 

Also to be noted:

 

*  I noticed some capacitors on the motherboard are bent slightly near the graphics card slots

 

*  It beeps twice on start up which is said to mean issues with the RAM on Dells.  I have 4 4 gig ram sticks and I didn't mess with them at all during installation.

 

*  Some of the things plugged into the USB slots have randomly stopped working during this, and I have to move my keyboard from slot to slot to get it to actually enter my choices.

 

*  There is one wire unhooked from something, but it leads to a little device on the front "grill" I would call it, of my computer.

 

Can somebody please help me get back to Modern Warfare with my friends (preferably with the AMD) as cheaply as possible?

[Whiro]

22 minutes ago, milk carton said:

Okay, this has me confused, so I'll try my best to describe my issue clearly and extensively, but no promises.

 

I got a new (to me ) AMD 580 8gb and installed it in my Dell Optiplex 980, after removing a GTX960, I had to bend the tower's frame a little to get it in there, but I figured that trade off was worth it.

 

Anyhow, I got it seated pretty well in the PCI e slot and plugged in my 500 w PSU, with all 8 pins.  At first it had an issue where it wouldn't find any drives, but after a bit of research, I fixed that by just resetting settings to default in the f2 menu.  I also decided to switch back to my gtx 960 to do a clean install of the drivers and such for the new AMD, but now it cannot find a boot device!  I found out that this is related to the hard drive, so I checked its plugs and it hasn't ever given me any reason to think it's going bad or corrupt.  I am currently running the tests. 

 

Also to be noted:

 

*  I noticed some capacitors on the motherboard are bent slightly near the graphics card slots

 

*  It beeps twice on start up which is said to mean issues with the RAM on Dells.  I have 4 4 gig ram sticks and I didn't mess with them at all during installation.

 

*  Some of the things plugged into the USB slots have randomly stopped working during this, and I have to move my keyboard from slot to slot to get it to actually enter my choices.

 

*  There is one wire unhooked from something, but it leads to a little device on the front "grill" I would call it, of my computer.

 

Can somebody please help me get back to Modern Warfare with my friends (preferably with the AMD) as cheaply as possible?

Try clearing cmos, using different sata port, different sata cable

[milk carton]

3 hours ago, Whiro said:

Try clearing cmos, using different sata port, different sata cable

 Okay, I did everything accept replace the cord since I dont have any spares, and it maid it until just before the picture where you swipe up and enter your password and it blue screened with an error message like "inaccessible boot device", so I tried again and same thing happened.  I just had it try to repair, to no avail.  What next?