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I wonder if anyone here has experienced something similar: I have a Samsung Evo 860 SSD. Sometimes after powering on my desktop the BIOS either "forgets" the dr
by fareesh 7y ago
I wonder if anyone here has experienced something similar: I have a Samsung Evo 860 SSD. Sometimes after powering on my desktop the BIOS either "forgets" the drive (sets some other drive as primary boot drive) or doesn't recognize it at all.
The non recognition issue goes away after I power off and power on.
It's been this way for about 8 months. Happens every 1/15 times I power on. I've heard it may have something to do with "sleep mode" or something like that. I always shutdown via software though.
- cptskippy 7y agoThat sounds like the drive is failing to initialize in time. Have you tried enabling a POST test or Boot Delay? I suspect the problem might magically go away if you do.
- fareesh 7y agoI'll try it out
- leetcrew 7y agomight be an innocent config issue, but this usually means the drive detection timed out during boot, which can be an early sign of drive failure. one of my old ssds behaved this way for a while before never being detected again. make sure you have anything important backed up.
- toast0 7y agoI had an ssd/system combination that would not communicate at sata 3, and either the bios wouldn't try at sata 2 or it would timeout detection too soon after. If your bios lets you set a sata revision, it's worth a try (mine didn't, but I used a sketchy download of the AMI Bios Editor to adjust the default; I couldn't figure out how to use the editor enough to make the setting visible). And also maybe reseat the cables.
- cmurf 7y agoIs the drive's firmware current? And what about the logic board firmware?