Why does my PC freeze at startup?

Question

Hard disks

There is a stationary computer with an HP motherboard, it began to hang on the manufacturer's logo tightly. What I came to at the moment:
I turn off the HDD, the computer starts and shows that there is nothing to boot from, responds to keys, enters the BIOS. It is logical that the HDD is faulty, I take it and connect it to another PC, it starts seeing the HDD, there are no errors. Okay, I take a known-good other hdd and connect it to the PC from which I removed the allegedly non-working hdd and it starts up fine and loads the system ... I don’t know where to dig ... Maybe a feature of HP motherboards? Who can come across this?

Answer 1

HP often has hardwire numbers locked in the BIOS, that is, often with the slightest change in the PC configuration, problems begin, such as the option to change the mother