ASRock z97 Extreme6 with m.2 + normal SSD cause boot problem. Baffled?

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Jak_Sparra

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hi,

Specs are in sig.

So I have 5 x HDDs, 1 x Samsung 850 EVO and 1 x samsung xp941 m.2.

The 5 x HDD's are just storage.

The 850 EVO is freshly formatted yesterday and contains Steam and 5 games. (Was previously my Windows OS drive)

The samsung xp941 m.2 has the OS (Windows 8.1), with all updates, Origin, BF4, AVAST!, and drivers etc.

If I have the Samsung EVO plugged in then it is the only drive drive option to boot too, even though it has no OS so does not boot to windows.

If I unplug it then PC boots from the samsung xp941 m.2 as expected but I cant get into the BIOS/UEFI as the keyboard does not work until windows is loaded...

So now I'm confused and stuck.

I want the PC to boot to windows on the samsung xp941 m.2.

I want all the HDD's and the 850 EVO SSD to be available once windows is on. Why is it so damn difficult!

Have I done something wrong or is ASRock considered a lower end motherboard manufacturer.

Is it because I have the HDD's and the EVO plugged in the wrong Sata slots? How do I know which ones to plug them into.

Why was everything working fine yesterday?

 
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Sorry, I explained it wrong.

the PC boots into windows 8.1 from the M.2 . I installed it yesterday and everything was fine. Even after a restart. Today, I could not get past the UEFI (motherboard) screen. In the end I unplugged all the other drives and left just the m.2 plugged in. It then booted up into windows.

But now if I shut down the PC and plug the 850 EVO in and reboot (still in 'Secure boot mode, so no CSMand it is in UEFI) then the PC still goes into windows from the m.2 but can not detect or see the 850 EVO.

I have just now unplugged the EVO, and plugged 3 HDD's in and turned the PC back on. Windows can only see 2 of them.

It's like the 3rd one is not plugged in.

Have I misunderstood some basic, major concept here?

I'm now more confused then I was earlier. Gonna try the rest of the HDD's. But one of them in only 1TB and only has 270GB of files on it so busy copying them over so I can then remove that drive permanently. Might make things less complicated.
 
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You explain it good, i understand well, Calvin7 miss to read you all i think.
I have similar problem than you.
I have the same XP940 Samsung SSD M2 (and be able to boot on archlinux system).
And have only 2 HDD classic and one other SSD (OCZ Vertex2) connected on SATA3-2 (so not linked to the asmedia chipset SATA port).

Ypu can also update your bios firmware to the last version (consider if you are connected by cable, you can do it easy by bios menu).

What you can try is to first give more information of the SATA3 port you choose (because 6 are "normal" and 4 as asmedia chipset linked... also, 3 of them can be linked/shared with other stuff... like sata express port).
So try to connect it far from any special shred SATA3 port (read the doc of the mother board, all is writing around this), and then, go in the bios menu at "Advanced / Storage", point on your SATA port who talk about your drive (noramlly, the drive vendor and ref name are show on the port), click on it and try change option (HDD / SSD).
reboot and see.

I have similar problem and in fact, sometimes my SSD OCZ is mounted on the system after boot, sometimes not (but all the times view on the bios list).
Asrock official forum censured my topic post (it is only an ads forum and there politic is weird infamous).


Other porblem is that if you enable asmedia, you can not probably boot from USB port....
Next time, i will chosse an other mark and never more Asrock (not for problem occurs, but for the so weird commercial politic).
 
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