After pressing the power button the PC will just sit there for a while before suddenly starting to boot normally.

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Hi.

Hi.

I bought a new PC at the start of the year:

OCZ Vector 150 120GB 2.5' SSD
Intel Core i5 4690 Processor 3.50Ghz 6MB Cache SKT 1150
Gigabyte H97M Gaming3 Motherboard - Socket 1150
Transcend DDR3-1600 Desktop Dimm CL11 - 8GB
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OC Graphics - 3GB

The problem is that sometimes (probably 3 out of 4 times, but not every time) when I turn the PC on it will just sit there doing nothing for about 30 seconds before suddenly showing the boot screen and booting normally. When I press the power button the motherboard's fan starts spinning and all of that stuff, but it doesn't start booting. I'd know it is starting when the lights on my keyboard comes on.

This never happens when I restart the computer, however.

I don't know whether this is connected, but it has happened a few times that I turn the PC on and after showing the boot screen I get a message saying there is no boot device. I'd have to restart, go into the bios menu, "change" the boot sequence and then save. Then it will boot fine.

Any ideas? Other than that the PC is fine, it's just annoying.

Thanks in advance.
 
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sounds like a bio's issue. i would check to see the Sata is fully connected to the OCZ vector to the motherboard. if it is. then it sounds like a bios thing.
Also have you updated your drivers from Gigabyte website? that can fix it too.
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sounds like a bio's issue. i would check to see the Sata is fully connected to the OCZ vector to the motherboard. if it is. then it sounds like a bios thing.
Also have you updated your drivers from Gigabyte website? that can fix it too.
 
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Thanks for the quick reply.

After the first time I got that "no boot device" error I opened the PC and redid the SATA cables. I could try again.

I have not updated the MB drivers, I only flashed the bios firmware from version 1.3 to 1.4 (I believe those are the numbers). I didn't think the drivers would come into play at startup. I did download them when I got the firmware update, so I'll try that tonight.
 
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I installed the newest drivers for the MB and turned it off and on again a few times and it seemed fine. I've never tried turning it off and on again this quickly, so I'm not sure whether that fixed it or whether it's still warm or something (like when I restart it).

So far so good, though, but I'll keep an eye on it and give you the final verdict in a few days.

Thanks again for coming back to me so quickly.
 
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Hi.

Well, I turned the PC on this morning, but it seems the problem has not been solved.

Anything else that can be the problem? A hardware fault perhaps? CMOS battery?
 
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Ok so you are saying Sometimes you have to go into Bios and change the Boot to the SATA SSD for it to boot normally. Check all the connections on the OCZ Vector 150 and make sure the sata and power cables on it are fully attached.

if the cables are all attached then it's a bios thing. GO here
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5000#bios Download the F2 5.42 MB 2014/06/02 Bios and update your bios

them just having a bios update for Improve SSD Performance tells me that you are not the only one that get's the problem.
 
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