Do you remember if you entered additional options like ‘nomodeset’ (as suggested by hendersj) to get the 13.1 installation media booting?
You did in fact succeed to install 13.1, according to what you report.
No, I did not enter any additional options like nomodeset to get the installation media booting. On the original install, I made a DVD for openSUSE, made a CD for Parted Magic, used PMagic to partition the hard drive that SUSE was going on, placed the SUSE DVD into the optical drive, and pointed everything to the already made partitions, and installed the OS.
The point is: why did the 13.1 installation media did boot then, and why doesn’t it boot now.
This is hard to explain.
Maybe you have a hardware problem now, after exchanging the SSD.
Perhaps you didn’t configure the right way for master/slave (for SATA).
Perhaps something else.
Graphics hardware would be suspicious anyway. But that didn’t change - did it?
I did a quick surf and could find no reason why openSUSE GNU Linux should not work.
Did you change any BIOS settings with your recent drive change … things like RAID or AHCI ?
Could be the dvd player just crapped out they do that. I’ve gone through 4 in the last 2 years and I don’t even us them that much.