[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[William Wylde]

So I bought a 250 gb external SSD (PNY USB 3.1), to plug into a usb 3.0
port on my computer- in the hopes that I could install Linux on the SSD.

I had a dual-boot windows 7/xubuntu 18.02 system that was running just
fine, except the windows 7 system was basically hosed and slow, and I
needed it faster for gaming (the only real reason I had a windoze partition
at all).  And assuming that I could put Linux on the SSD, I went ahead and
bought a windoze 10 license along with a usb install stick and put it on my
main 1tb disk.  That went off without a hitch.

BUT

The bios in my computer doesn't see my PNY elite 250gb PSSD at all.  It ees
the usb 2.0 card reader, and will add it to the boot device list with no
problem- but the new external SSD is invisible to it.

The drive itself is fine.   Windoze see's it with no problem, and it's
access time is what you'd expect from a usb 3.0 connected SSD.

And now I can't get a xubuntu install CD or USB stick to work either.
They hang, and eventually the hdmi display will time-out and tell me that
there's no input from the computer.

"Trusted computing" is turned off, and I can find no settings concerning
EHCI in the bios setup utility, so I'm at a loss.   Anybody have a clue as
to what I'm doing wrong?

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.”

― Mark Twain
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