HDD and SSD trouble

Hi!
A couple of days ago I left my Macbook Pro 13 inch Mid 2012 at my desk for a couple of minutes. When I returned it showed a grey screen with a folder icon and a question mark within this icon. I remember not putting it down smoothly but more or less dropping it on my desk. Restarts did not work and after searching the web for the meaning of the error icon, I figured that my hard drive must have failed.
I also have an external hard disk which I use for storage of some video files/projects. I took this hard disk out of the casing and also removed the internal hard disk from my Macbook. I placed the external hard disk in my Macbook, and I placed my former internal hard disk in the casing of my external hard disk drive. I then restarted my Macbook holding down the Alt-key. I was again able to boot OS X through the USB connected hard disk. In finder, my former external hard disk, now connected internally, also showed up. All files were accessible and it showed no sign of faulty internal connection.
My guess is, after reading through several threads on multiple fora, that the SATA cable in my Macbook might be faulty. It doesn't make sense that it does work for my external storage disk, but doesn't for the original start up disk. On the other hand, I've read that it can be more sensitive for different hard disks.
Now, due to all these problems, I thought it was a great idea to finally buy an SSD, as I was planning on upgrading to SSD anyways. I bought a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Drive. As I already expected, the SSD wasn't recognised by the internal SATA connector. Then I booted using my original hard drive connected using my external hard drive SATA to USB connector, and plugged in my SSD using the Samsung SATA to USB connector. I did a fresh installation of Yosemite on the SSD. I tried booting Yosemite from the SSD using the internal SATA but no luck. So what it comes down to: I can only boot the two drives (my original boot disk and my fresh Yosemite SSD) using the external hard disk SATA to USB connector.
Storage Device >
Connectors
SSD
Hitachi Orignal Boot Disk
External Hard Drive
Samsung SSD SATA to USB
✓ but not bootable
✓ but not bootable
✓
External Hard Drive SATA to USB
✓
✓
✓
Internal SATA connector
✕
✕
✓
I then tried to update the firmware of the SSD: made a bootable DVD with the Samsung firmware update and tried to boot from it. Now here a strange thing happens. The boot DVD will only boot when the internal SATA connector is connected to a hard disk, so at the moment it will only boot when the internal drive is my former external hard drive (this is the only one that works internally). When the firmware update runs, it says that no Samsung SSD is found, while it is plugged in via USB.
I've read things about Trim Enabler and for some reason I used this utility and its currently set on 'on'. I don't know if this is important but I guess the more information the better.
Now, my questions related to this story are:
1. I'm currently running Yosemite from an USB plugged storage device. This is obviously not very comfortable. What might be the issue for not being able to boot from the SSD when internally connected to the SATA port?
2. The SSD firmware won't detect the USB connected SSD. How can this be possible? I will also contact Samsung for this issue.
I really hope someone can help me out, because currently I'm not exactly sure what the problem is
Regards,
Dirk

Quote from: moxieman117 on 11-August-12, 08:22:42
Hey guys, just picked up a Z68a-G45 (G3) and I'm currently running the following hardware on it:
i5 3570k 3.4ghz at 95w (I have verified that the mobo is compatible with this chip) with stock cooler
1 DIMM of 4gb Kingston HyperX ddr3 1600 ram
OCZ ZT series 750 watt modular PSU
I currently have the graphics card, SSD, HDD, and CD-ROM out for trouble shooting purposes.
Currently, when I start her up it thinks for a second, powers up, fans spin, and then after a few seconds it dies and restarts.
I went down to 1 DIMM, cleared CMOS, checked for bent pins, even tried a different PSU all with the same result. Is this likely due to the board?
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