SSD conflict when booting

[piowoc]

Hi,

here is what I got:
Asus P9X79 PRO m/b,
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 4801 07/25/2014
i7 3930K,
OCZ-REVODRIVE3 X2 960MB on PCI x4, which is my boot drive (Win 10 64-bit)
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB on SATA, which I use for storing my documents

The issue is that whenever I restart the PC 850 Evo is trying to take over and boot the system, no matter if I set it as primary, or logical partition.

So, I enter BIOS, change the bootable devices order (I set only OCZ and my DVD drive as bootable devices there and I delete 3rd option for 850 EVO). Then after saving the settings and restart it's trying it boot from 850 EVO again!

What I realized is that only if I enter the BIOS is EZ mode and change it there it actually holds, just for one reboot though.

Any ideas?
Your input will be appreciated.

 

[Elixer]

Hi,

here is what I got:
Asus P9X79 PRO m/b,
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 4801 07/25/2014
i7 3930K,
OCZ-REVODRIVE3 X2 960MB on PCI x4, which is my boot drive (Win 10 64-bit)
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB on SATA, which I use for storing my documents

The issue is that whenever I restart the PC 850 Evo is trying to take over and boot the system, no matter if I set it as primary, or logical partition.

So, I enter BIOS, change the bootable devices order (I set only OCZ and my DVD drive as bootable devices there and I delete 3rd option for 850 EVO). Then after saving the settings and restart it's trying it boot from 850 EVO again!

What I realized is that only if I enter the BIOS is EZ mode and change it there it actually holds, just for one reboot though.

Any ideas?
Your input will be appreciated.

Nothing to do with your 850.
This is a BIOS setting to which drive is booted first.

 

[piowoc]

I set the booting drive priority 3 times and every time it's been modified when the system is booting. It looks as if the BIOS was unable to save the settings, or some other device booting before BIOS was able to modify them.

 

[silicon]

Hi,

here is what I got:
Asus P9X79 PRO m/b,
UEFI: American Megatrends Inc. 4801 07/25/2014
i7 3930K,
OCZ-REVODRIVE3 X2 960MB on PCI x4, which is my boot drive (Win 10 64-bit)
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB on SATA, which I use for storing my documents

The issue is that whenever I restart the PC 850 Evo is trying to take over and boot the system, no matter if I set it as primary, or logical partition.

So, I enter BIOS, change the bootable devices order (I set only OCZ and my DVD drive as bootable devices there and I delete 3rd option for 850 EVO). Then after saving the settings and restart it's trying it boot from 850 EVO again!

What I realized is that only if I enter the BIOS is EZ mode and change it there it actually holds, just for one reboot though.

Any ideas?
Your input will be appreciated.

does your computer boot when the 850 evo is disconnected?

 

[piowoc]

It looks like I was able to solve the problem...

850 EVO was connected to the SATA 6GB/c port marked "SSD caching" and it wasn't showing up on the list of connected SATA devices in BIOS. That's probably why it tried to boot as a SCSI device (like my OCZ SSD drive does, but it's connected through PCI), so that's why I got this booting conflict.
So, I connected it to another SATA port and everything seems to be okay, at least for now