BIOS & SSD problem on a Gateway laptop

Hey guys, I posted this in the Hard Drive Forum but got no responses. I'm hoping someone has run into this and has a solution. I have a Gateway NV59c laptop, and on this site I have a compatibility guarantee for the Crucial MX100 500 GB SSD I picked up. I used Acronis to clone the drive, and the cloning went great. However when I remove my current HDD and replace it with the SSD, the computer doesn't even get to the BIOS screen, it just shows the Gateway splash, says hit F2 for Setup, but it won't respond to F2, it shuts off and restarts. Rinse, repeat. It's like it hits a fault of some kind before the BIOS can load.
I do have a work-around but it's tedious. If I disconnect the SSD I can get to the BIOS. From there I can switch the type of HDD in the BIOS from AHCI to IDE. Then I re-installed the drive. This got me past BIOS, but only once at a time. I reset it to AHCI and it works. I have to repeat this workaround anytime I reboot the machine because it continues to give me issues on reboot. I've flashed the BIOS to the latest version and updated the SSD firmware.
Any ideas?

I have a very similar issue, a Gateway NV55C38U, HDD is still working, but I wanted a fast SSD - so I clones the HDD - that worked - no error messages, and it won't boot up after the clone when I swap the HDD out and put the SDD in. With similar games I got it to boot once onto the SSD so I know the copy of windows (7 Home Premium) is good and works) but it won't boot again without playing similar games - and those are not usable for a college daughter who will be using this machine. I was not able to access the tread you pointed the other person back to. I have an account, but that must have been a thread just for that person. Any ideas would be appreacited

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