Boot Option Priorities

[Giftz]

Hello. I have an Asus Z97-Pro motherboard; the front page EZ mode of the bios screen looks like this (googled a screenshot):
http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/asus-z97-pro-wifi-bios-1-645x483.jpg

On the right there under boot priority it only shows three items for me. It didn't show my SSD there so I thought it might not be booting from my SSD and tried to find a way to change it to be on the list. I messed around with some options and tried to change it back by hitting the default button, but apparently it didn't affect the boot options I changed and wouldn't change it back and I forget what order I had them in. I'm pretty sure which three things it was which were:

Boot Priority:
1) P4: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS30
2) MultipleCard Reader
3) Realtek Boot Agent

When I go into Advanced in the bios I can click "Hard Drive BBS Priorities" and it has:

Hard Drive BBS Priorities:
#1 MultipleCard Reader
#2 P1: Sandisk SSD ...
#3 P2: Toshiba DT01...
#4 P3: WDC WD10...

So I guess it tries to check my DVD drive, the multiple card reader (don't even know what this is), the realtek boot agent (also don't know what this is) and then if I don't have anything in those it goes to the hard drive bbs priorities, checks multiple card reader again(?), and then boots from my SSD?

What I had done to get the SSD to show up on the front page boot priority list was change the hard drive bbs priorities list switching #1 and #2 around to having the SSD first. This replaced MultipleCard Reader on the front page boot priority list. I then put the SSD as priority #1. Later I learned that then it would not recognize if I say put in the windows installation CD because it would go right to booting windows with my SSD and never check the DVD I guess. So I changed it to DVD priority 1, and SSD priority 2.

But now I just want to revert the changes back to what they were. I think it was P4: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS30, MultipleCard Reader, Realtek Boot Agent in that list but I forget what order they were in. Does it even matter? I think it's booting from my SSD anyway, it didn't seem to change the boot speed no matter what I changed.

Thank you for the help!

 

[dekertek]

It might be a slightly faster boot to put your SSD first. Why don't you just set your SSD as first boot in both the Hard Drive BBS, and Boot Priority? You can always press F8 during boot to pick your DVD if you want that for a 1 time thing.

As long as your OS is starting correctly it really isn't that big of deal.

 

[Giftz]

Oh you can manually select the DVD like that anyway? Cool thanks didn't know that. I think it seemed exactly the same speed even when I had my SSD first, so now I think I want to just revert it back to what it was, I just don't remember exactly because I didn't write that down.

Yeah I figure it probably isn't a huge deal it just sucks pressing restore to default didn't change it back. If anyone confirms that having
Boot Priority:
1) P4: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS30
2) MultipleCard Reader
3) Realtek Boot Agent

those three items in my boot priority is ok and the order doesn't matter that would make me feel more assured.

Thank you for the response and advice deker

 

[dekertek]

That order is perfectly okay. The order will change based on the devices installed in your system. You probably won't be formatting any memory cards to boot from and leaving them in your reader during startup, so the MultipleCard Reader won't be a problem. The Realtek Boot Agent is your network card, and unless you have a PXE network boot server installed on your network, that isn't of concern either.

You're all good there.

 

[Giftz]

Ok thanks for the help deker glad to have assurance I didn't screw anything up by fiddling around, ty