SSD won't boot on intel computer, boots fine on AMD

jermtheworm92

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Hi guys,

I have two SSD's I am working with, one is an Adata and the other is SanDisk, I have installed windows 10 on both of these, both boot fine on my personal desktop and laptop, but neither will boot on my work computer.

My laptop is a HP running an AMD A8 processor.
Personal Desktop is a AMD Ryzen 1700, with a MSI Tomahawk MB.
Work computer is a Dell Optiplex 960 w/ Intel MB, all stock.

So, both of these hard drives boot perfectly on my laptop and personal desktop, but when I install them into my work computer neither will boot. If I go to the Bios and set the boot settings to RAID only I get to a screen that shows, Intel Matrix Storage, and it freezes here. If I change the boot settings to RAID/ACHI, RAID/ATA, or Legacy it goes from the Dell logo directly to a black screen and does nothing more.

Both of the SSD's are showing in the BIOS accurately, I have tried them seperately, they were set to the primary boot device, and connected to the SATA0 slot..

Also, the computer boots just fine from a regular HDD plugged into the same SATA slot.

I have no idea what could be causing intel not to read the SSD while it reads the HDD just fine... Any ideas?
 
Solution
below are the usual settings in your BIOS for an SSD as a bootable drive with windows 10 to work :
* SATA mode in AHCI
* Boot mode in CSM disabled/UEFI+legacy/Legacy disabled/etc. depending on your BIOS
* disable secure boot (ignore if missing)

double-check on both your systems.

marksavio

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below are the usual settings in your BIOS for an SSD as a bootable drive with windows 10 to work :
* SATA mode in AHCI
* Boot mode in CSM disabled/UEFI+legacy/Legacy disabled/etc. depending on your BIOS
* disable secure boot (ignore if missing)

double-check on both your systems.
 
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