Hi guys. I keep having a recurring issue with drives in my system. Everything will run incredible after a clean install of my OS, then chipset drivers and then rest of my motherboard drivers and finishing with my GPU driver. And when I say incredible, I mean it. It boots in under 18 seconds at fresh install. So, eventually, the boot time begins to increase dramatically until I get a full failure to boot error. At this time, I have to reinstall windows to get up and running again, and then the same cycle repeats.
So I am trying to figure out what is causing this. At first, I started with my OS on a Kingston SSD Now V300 120 GB SSD. That drive actually failed and I was RMA'd a new drive. I did not reinstall windows on that Kingston. I instead purchased a Toshiba Q-Series Pro 128GB SSD and ran a fresh OS install. I also have a Crucial M500 240GB SSD that I run a few programs and clients on and a Crucial MX100 512GB SSD that I have most of my games installed on. I also use a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD for movies, music and all of my less demanding games. And for my optical, I am running an LG Bluray Drive.
Currently, if I install the Seagate, then one of my other drives will disappear from BIOS(BIOS randomly seems to choose 1 or more drives to not detect). If I remove the SSDs then seems to be smoother and faster boot time, and I can get BIOS to read the Seagate with my C: drive and my Optical Drive. Right now, I have the 2 Crucials and the Toshiba(OS) connected, and windows is now failing to detect my optical drive, and the optical drive won't show up in BIOS. Boot time right now is anywhere from about 1-3 minutes right now. The 2 Crucial SSDs are both 90% full, could the fact that these two drives are almost full be causing the slow boot time, even though the OS is not installed on those? They should be staying cleaned up with TRIM anyway since I am running 64 bit Windows 7 too correct?
So, I have all of my SATA configurations set to AHCI mode. Here is where I have a few more specific questions. My manual for the motherboard says that I should be using the front panel eSATA or my singled out SATA port #5 for my optical drive, with it set to IDE mode. Does anyone know the significance of this, and why it is recommended? I noticed this just now and have my optical drive "running" on AHCI mode still, could this be causing it to no longer be detected? Could that also be causing the other drive detection problems too? I know the IDE mode is meant for older ATA drives and am thinking this could make sense since I purchased the Bluray drive back in 2009. Also, can I now change the SATA port that my Bluray drive is installed on to IDE mode even though I already have windows installed? Or will this cause a series of other problems? Having my SATA ports to AHCI should also automatically be running TRIM on my SSDs to then correct? Or, do I need to have ALL SSDs installed when I install my OS in order to properly have my system running TRIM on my SSDs?
That was quite the explanation, I figured I would just put all the details I can think of right on here and hopefully somebody can help. Thanks!
So I am trying to figure out what is causing this. At first, I started with my OS on a Kingston SSD Now V300 120 GB SSD. That drive actually failed and I was RMA'd a new drive. I did not reinstall windows on that Kingston. I instead purchased a Toshiba Q-Series Pro 128GB SSD and ran a fresh OS install. I also have a Crucial M500 240GB SSD that I run a few programs and clients on and a Crucial MX100 512GB SSD that I have most of my games installed on. I also use a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD for movies, music and all of my less demanding games. And for my optical, I am running an LG Bluray Drive.
Currently, if I install the Seagate, then one of my other drives will disappear from BIOS(BIOS randomly seems to choose 1 or more drives to not detect). If I remove the SSDs then seems to be smoother and faster boot time, and I can get BIOS to read the Seagate with my C: drive and my Optical Drive. Right now, I have the 2 Crucials and the Toshiba(OS) connected, and windows is now failing to detect my optical drive, and the optical drive won't show up in BIOS. Boot time right now is anywhere from about 1-3 minutes right now. The 2 Crucial SSDs are both 90% full, could the fact that these two drives are almost full be causing the slow boot time, even though the OS is not installed on those? They should be staying cleaned up with TRIM anyway since I am running 64 bit Windows 7 too correct?
So, I have all of my SATA configurations set to AHCI mode. Here is where I have a few more specific questions. My manual for the motherboard says that I should be using the front panel eSATA or my singled out SATA port #5 for my optical drive, with it set to IDE mode. Does anyone know the significance of this, and why it is recommended? I noticed this just now and have my optical drive "running" on AHCI mode still, could this be causing it to no longer be detected? Could that also be causing the other drive detection problems too? I know the IDE mode is meant for older ATA drives and am thinking this could make sense since I purchased the Bluray drive back in 2009. Also, can I now change the SATA port that my Bluray drive is installed on to IDE mode even though I already have windows installed? Or will this cause a series of other problems? Having my SATA ports to AHCI should also automatically be running TRIM on my SSDs to then correct? Or, do I need to have ALL SSDs installed when I install my OS in order to properly have my system running TRIM on my SSDs?
That was quite the explanation, I figured I would just put all the details I can think of right on here and hopefully somebody can help. Thanks!
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