ASUS Motherboard BIOS booting to wrong drive.

[KeithTalent]

Hello friends. About a month ago I upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and OS. All of them work great, but I just recently (about 2 days ago) started running into this issue where the BIOS is not automatically booting into my SSD with Windows 8 on it, it defaults to my old TB drive which I just use for storage (it's running Win 7 Ultimate).

If I go into the BIOS I can manually boot into the SSD and Win 8, but I am not able to force it as the priority drive as it does not show up in the weird little slotting thing (you use the mouse to move the drives around) in the BIOS main screen.

There are no other issues at all; everything runs smoothly, the time does not reset in the BIOS (I read this may happen if the battery was faulty). It is only the drive and while it's not a huge deal, I would prefer not to have boot into the BIOS every time I restart my computer.

Relevant parts:

ASUS Z87-K ATX LGA1150 Z87
Intel Core i5 4570 Quad Core 3.2GHZ Processor LGA1150 Haswell 6MB Cache
Windows 8.1

Anyone have any thoughts here? Would really appreciate any help.

Thanks! 🙂

KT

 

[DesiPower]

Did you try swapping the SATA cables? maybe old HDD is one #1 or #2 cable and SSD on, lets say, #5?

 

[KeithTalent]

Did you try swapping the SATA cables? maybe old HDD is one #1 or #2 cable and SSD on, lets say, #5?

I have not but the SSD is on #1 and the old drive is on #5 currently; I purposely did that so it would not mess anything up. I can't imagine the cables themselves would be causing the issue. :hmm:

KT

 

[DesiPower]

that's strange... maybe the BIOS remembers something. Maybe boot once after disconnecting the hdd or worst case restore the bios to default, maybe that will make it forget

*Edit*
I goggled and found this, look at Post#8, doesn't say much but might give you some direction.

 

[KeithTalent]

that's strange... maybe the BIOS remembers something. Maybe boot once after disconnecting the hdd or worst case restore the bios to default, maybe that will make it forget

*Edit*
I goggled and found this, look at Post#8, doesn't say much but might give you some direction.

I actually did restore the BIOS to default, but it did not do anything.

That link is interesting; let me see if I can do anything with that when I get home. Appreciate the help man.

KT

 

[DesiPower]

Maybe this is where you set it, do you see something like this? since I have only one bootable drive its showing that, if you have multiple its should show up here...

*Edit*
I clicked on the "Hard Drive BBS Properties" in the above pic and saw the below, that should do the trick

 

[Charlie98]

My main desktop does that now and then... it will boot up and I'm guessing the Plextor SSD doesn't wake up quick enough to be seen by the BIOS. I even configured the BIOS to wait 5 seconds before it looks for drives to give the Plextor time to respond; sometimes it works, sometimes it don't, and it's only been a problem with the Plextor drive, not the OCZ or Samsung drives I've had loaded previously on the same mobo.

OP, what SSD are you using?

 

[KeithTalent]

Maybe this is where you set it, do you see something like this? since I have only one bootable drive its showing that, if you have multiple its should show up here...

*Edit*
I clicked on the "Hard Drive BBS Properties" in the above pic and saw the below, that should do the trick

That did it, thanks! 🙂 I was actually in the advanced mode and looked at the boot menu there too, but I did not see that you could go down further so totally missed those settings there. I'm such a dope. 😀

My main desktop does that now and then... it will boot up and I'm guessing the Plextor SSD doesn't wake up quick enough to be seen by the BIOS. I even configured the BIOS to wait 5 seconds before it looks for drives to give the Plextor time to respond; sometimes it works, sometimes it don't, and it's only been a problem with the Plextor drive, not the OCZ or Samsung drives I've had loaded previously on the same mobo.

OP, what SSD are you using?

Crucial M4 SSD Micron C400 128GB. I am hoping these setting will stick now, but we'll see.

KT