Boot Device Failure with SSD and Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

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EricNL

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I'm getting pretty consistent boot failure with a newly purchased GB GA-990FXA-UD3 board not recognizing my SSD boot drive. This just starting happening with the new system board. The SSD was connected to another, older GB system board previously without any trouble, and this is a fresh install of Windows 7 64. My current solution is to reseat the SATA connection at the SSD and it will boot into Windows. After a shutdown, I will have to reseat the SATA connection again. I've tried a couple of different SATA cables, but that hasn't made a difference. I have not tried a different port on the system board, but that will likely be my next step. I also have not tried flashing the BIOS.

The specific error is:

The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

The SSD is a PNY Optima SSD7SC240GOPT-RB. There are also two other mechanical hard drives, both SATA, connected. I can try disconnecting them, but my data is all on one and my programs on the other, and they were all working happily together on the previous system board. The only thing that has changed is that I installed the new system board and did a fresh install of Windows.

Where else should I look? Is there possibly something in BIOS that could be causing it to fail? The only thing I could think of there is the AHCI setting, which is on.

Thank for the help.
 
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If reseating the data cable is making this work - is there any stress on the cable (tight connection)? When the drive fails, if you go into BIOS - is it recognized? A different port may help - have you tried using the known good cable off one of your hard drives? (Disconnect both drives temporarily and connect only the SSD to the known good port/cable - and try rebooting a few times).
 
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EricNL

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There is no stress on the cable. When the problem first started happening the drive would not show up in BIOS. The original cable was also kind of loose. The cable I'm currently using is one I grabbed from work for testing that came out of a working Optiplex 990, and it fits much more securely than the original one.

I'll try disconnecting the two mechanical drives when I get back to the computer this evening, and double check to see if the drive is still missing when the error occurs.
 
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Will this require a re-install of Windows? After doing a fair bit of troubleshooting this weekend, I've got it to the point where it's stable unless I shut the computer down over night. Letting it go to sleep instead of shutting down seems to be working okay for now.
 
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Just had a similar problem with 2 systems in the office, both with Gigabyte motherboards (GA-H67MA-USB3-B3): The systems would fail to boot after the installation of Windows, when using an SSD drive as the OS drive. The symptoms were that the hard drive would light up and stay lit while the screen remained blank. At that point, hitting the power button would cause an immediate reboot. (Meaning the OS had not even started to load) I saw the problem when using both Intel and Corsair SSDs.

The fix was to upgrade motherboard to the latest firmware. The boards had shipped with version F1. Upgrading to version F8 did the trick!

You probably won't get much help from the vendor...I reported this issue, just a few days ago, to Gigabyte support but they dismissed it as a non-issue.
 
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