Cannot boot- MOBO wont find OS SSD

raugie

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Apr 28, 2013
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I have the Asus Z87-Pro motherboard and when I go to boot the machine, it will go straight to bios and the SSD with my OS will not be recognized. After waiting a few minutes or rebooting to bios once or twice, the SSD will finally be recognized, then I have to set it as my primary boot drive.

Machine will boot fine, but if I shut everything down for the day and go back to start the computer in the next morning, the drive will not be recognized again and I have to repeat the same annoying process.

Any suggestions?

I have swapped SSD positions with another ssd that is always recognized in the bios and the problem continues, could it be my SSD? Its an older SATA 3.0 GB/s unit from a laptop, samsung unit.

Thanks!
 

raugie

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Apr 28, 2013
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Well now I have entered the bios and the boot device led indicator is on, and "A0" is showing on the motherboard. Sorry I am sort of new to this, how to I check SMART? Bios has been idling for a few minutes now and now the SSD shows up in the boot options.