Hello,
This is a bit of a unique issue and the searches I tried only resulted in one forum with the issue but never a solution and it's kind of mind boggling at this point.
A friend of mine has purchased an Acer Predator G3620. He also purchased an extra Samsung SSD 840 Series 120GB.
Now the Acer has a 2TB hybridg drive with 16GB SSD cache storage. This SSD storage is physically another chip connected with it's in SATA and power cables btw.
Now, my impression was you can plug an SSD into a motherboard and install away, the BIOS should detect it no problem. Well it does and kind of doesn't. When we are in Windows 8, we can see the SSD in disk management, format it and use it as a separate drive. But we want to install Windows 8 on this SSD and use it as the main boot disk. So when I go into the BIOS, under the hard disk boot devices/priority, the SSD is not listed there. Under a different tab, it shows what each SATA connection is connected to and shows the samsung SSD there, I just can't select it as a boot device, I have no idea why.
Here is what I've tried. I've flashed the Acer motherboard with the latest BIOS from their website. I've upgraded the samsung SSD to the latest firmware as well. In windows 8 under disk management, I even formatted the drive using the Convert to MBR option which I read is needed for it to boot from. The BIOS Sata are already set to AHCI and NOT IDE. I've connected the samsung SSD using the same SATA cable that the original HD was using, I've even unplugged every sata device including the bluray drive to give the desktop no other alternative boot device and when doing that, it just says no boot device available... nothing has worked.
To make sure the SSD was not defective, I've brought it home and tried it on my desktop and it detects and boots to it fine and I went as far as installing windows 7 on it to make sure it works correctly. My desktop it 3-4 years old and this Acer is a new machine so I don't understand why the Acer desktop cannot boot to it, even though it clearly detects the SSD.
Is there anything I could have possibly overlooked here? Is it possible that the Acer motherboard simply is not compatibile with this SSD, and if so, is there any listing online that shows SSD compatibility with motherboards? I was under the impression whether your mobo is sata2 or sata3 compatibile, the SSD should work just at lower speeds if you have sata2 hardware.
This is a bit of a unique issue and the searches I tried only resulted in one forum with the issue but never a solution and it's kind of mind boggling at this point.
A friend of mine has purchased an Acer Predator G3620. He also purchased an extra Samsung SSD 840 Series 120GB.
Now the Acer has a 2TB hybridg drive with 16GB SSD cache storage. This SSD storage is physically another chip connected with it's in SATA and power cables btw.
Now, my impression was you can plug an SSD into a motherboard and install away, the BIOS should detect it no problem. Well it does and kind of doesn't. When we are in Windows 8, we can see the SSD in disk management, format it and use it as a separate drive. But we want to install Windows 8 on this SSD and use it as the main boot disk. So when I go into the BIOS, under the hard disk boot devices/priority, the SSD is not listed there. Under a different tab, it shows what each SATA connection is connected to and shows the samsung SSD there, I just can't select it as a boot device, I have no idea why.
Here is what I've tried. I've flashed the Acer motherboard with the latest BIOS from their website. I've upgraded the samsung SSD to the latest firmware as well. In windows 8 under disk management, I even formatted the drive using the Convert to MBR option which I read is needed for it to boot from. The BIOS Sata are already set to AHCI and NOT IDE. I've connected the samsung SSD using the same SATA cable that the original HD was using, I've even unplugged every sata device including the bluray drive to give the desktop no other alternative boot device and when doing that, it just says no boot device available... nothing has worked.
To make sure the SSD was not defective, I've brought it home and tried it on my desktop and it detects and boots to it fine and I went as far as installing windows 7 on it to make sure it works correctly. My desktop it 3-4 years old and this Acer is a new machine so I don't understand why the Acer desktop cannot boot to it, even though it clearly detects the SSD.
Is there anything I could have possibly overlooked here? Is it possible that the Acer motherboard simply is not compatibile with this SSD, and if so, is there any listing online that shows SSD compatibility with motherboards? I was under the impression whether your mobo is sata2 or sata3 compatibile, the SSD should work just at lower speeds if you have sata2 hardware.
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