I'm at my wit's end here. I've had this asrock x58 extreme3 machine for several years and it has performed flawlessly until I tried to use a samsung evo 850 3D vertical ssd as my boot drive replacing my wd black hd. The weird thing is the drive boots up perfectly with the windows 7 pro disc in the drive, but without it the system says theres no boot media found. I was cloning my wd black to the ssd and after 2 days and 5 software packages I installed win7 clean to the ssd with no issues until I removed the windows disc and rebooted.
The mbr and bootcfg aren't the problem and windows startup repair reports no issues found on the clean install no matter how many times I run it. I'm using sata3 port 1 with a sata3 cable. AHCI is enabled on the sata controllers and confirmed ahci by bios on startup. The ssd is detected on startup and in the bios. I'm running the latest bios 2.80. I contacted asrock and their response was that they tested the samsung evo 850 on this board (among others) without issue. I'm trying to find out which marvell bios they were using.
Does anyone have other ideas? I really dont want to scrap this setup I put a lot into it.
The mbr and bootcfg aren't the problem and windows startup repair reports no issues found on the clean install no matter how many times I run it. I'm using sata3 port 1 with a sata3 cable. AHCI is enabled on the sata controllers and confirmed ahci by bios on startup. The ssd is detected on startup and in the bios. I'm running the latest bios 2.80. I contacted asrock and their response was that they tested the samsung evo 850 on this board (among others) without issue. I'm trying to find out which marvell bios they were using.
Does anyone have other ideas? I really dont want to scrap this setup I put a lot into it.