Motherboard boot problems.

Jorge Santiago

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May 25, 2014
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Hello everyone;

My Rig
FX 8350 with CoolerMaste Evo 212
GSkill Ares 16 Gb 1833
Power Color R9 270x
PNY Optima SSD 240 GB
Seagate Baracuda 3TB
Solidgear 850W PSU
TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900
NZXT Sentry-2 5.25" Touch Screen Fan Controller
Rosewill RCR-IC001 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5"
LG Bluray Burner
Apevia Sniper 2 Computer case with 2 extra pair of Corsair Air Series120mm Fans (total of 5 system fan)
and
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 revision 4 with BIOS update to F2

My problem. It began with Win 8.1 doesn't start after a shutdown.
I when into the Bios and Select the Boot HHD priority and Boot order to boot from the PNY SSD where I installed the OS. Every other method was disable.

First I found myself going back and forward into the BIOS to select the SSD because it will stop recognize it the BIOS boot order setting, but oddly enough when you go to the save and exit tab, under the Boot Overwrite you can see all the HHD as well the SSD.

Sometime I have to manually go into the BIOS overwrite and select the SSD.

The other problem I'm facing is that when the SSD is recognize, Win 8.1 won't boot from a shutdown. In other to boot Win 8 I have to wait for the Bios post to finish and get the black screen. Then Press Ctrl+Alt+delete or press the restart bottom to cycle the boot process and that is how I get Win 8.1 to boot.

When Win is up and running I have no issue, can play my PC games like BF4 and AC BF with no heating problems or system crashes.

Any Ideas?
 

Jorge Santiago

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Smorizio thank you for you prompt reply. I had switch the SSD sata port from 0 to 1 and back to 0 with the same result. I also verify that the Sata Chipset had being set to ACHI mode with idle. All Sata ports are enable with hot swap and power.
 

Jorge Santiago

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May 25, 2014
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My PNY SSD card was on the last firmware. I'm convenience that has something to do with the MB. Today I try to turn it on and it ask me for a bootable drive. When into the BIOS and it had change the BIOS setting I had. It wasn't showing my SSD there but it Showed under the BIOS Overwrite.

I reloaded the profile setting I save before and there was my SSD again. I just needed to reorder my BIOS upload order and I was able to upload WIN again.

Perhaps is a BIOS glitch? A bad chipset? Haven't try resetting my CMOS but I'm not to familiar on how to do it in this MB.

Update:

I remove the CMOS Battery and when I turn my system on BIOS showed a massage to load optimize setting. I did and enter the BIOS. On the BIOS BOOT ORDER it showed my SSD.

I restarted my system and it work!! Well that is what I thought. I unplug my PC from my LED TV to take it to another LCD screen, This time the Boot process didn't work as before, it ask me for a bootable Disc or drive. I press restart on my case and then it Boot Windows normal again.