Question Boot to BIOS for seemingly no reason

[cv_02kr]

Posting about this again a year later as it's still an annoying issue I never found a solution for.

I've tried nearly everything I can think of to fix this issue, with no progress. I've set boot order a million times, reset CMOS battery, reset BIOS to default, disabled fast boot, etc etc... to no avail. It's incredibly annoying to have to manually boot the SSD everytime the PC is turned on. I've pulled, cleaned, and inspected the CPU and socket. Nothing amiss. Nothing seems wrong in Windows.

I'm at a loss here.

 

[geofelt]

What are all of the specs of your pc?

As a wild guess, there was another drive present when you installed windows.

 

[cv_02kr]

What are all of the specs of your pc?

As a wild guess, there was another drive present when you installed windows.

There was no other drive when installed. Same drive, same SATA.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qPrvnt

There's an additional TB SSD I installed a few months ago that's not on there, but the problem was present long before it was added.

 

[guilhermeol]

Have you tried changing cmos batery?

 

[cv_02kr]

Have you tried changing cmos batery?

I've tried nearly everything I can think of to fix this issue, with no progress. I've set boot order a million times, reset CMOS battery,

 

[scout_03]

when you boot do you have the real time of the day in system and as suggested buy a new bios battery and use it .

 

[cv_02kr]

when you boot do you have the real time of the day in system and as suggested buy a new bios battery and use it .

Again, have switched the battery as mentioned above. Not at the PC right now, but as memory serves it is real-time accurate.

 

[SkyNetRising]

It's incredibly annoying to have to manually boot the SSD everytime the PC is turned on

Please show screenshot from Disk Management and
screenshot from BIOS - boot priority settings.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[cv_02kr]

Please show screenshot from Disk Management and
screenshot from BIOS - boot priority settings.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

https://imgur.com/a/cph59hv

View: https://imgur.com/a/cph59hv


hopefully that works. Interestingly, it re-enabled fast boot and I had to turn it off again. It resets after that ofc, and it didn't help anything, so I guess it didn't really matter. I've googled that error it gives on the first screen, the "set raid" error, and followed steps to try and resolve that with no change.

 

[SkyNetRising]

And screenshot from Disk Management?

BIOS is set to boot from SATA6G_5 (500GB).
When you boot manually, do you specify SATA6G_1 drive (1TB)?

 

[cv_02kr]

https://imgur.com/a/0xFE8PW

View: https://imgur.com/a/0xFE8PW


forgot disk management, here's that

 

[cv_02kr]

And screenshot from Disk Management?

BIOS is set to boot from SATA6G_5 (500GB).
When you boot manually, do you specify SATA6G_1 drive (1TB)?

No, Windows is on SATA5 drive, the original. It's always been set to boot from that one. Issue was present before the TB drive was introduced, but no, I boot the SATA5 drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Show screenshot from BIOS - CSM options.
It's possible your pc tries to boot in UEFI mode first, then in legacy mode.
OS is installed in legacy mode. So UEFI mode will not work.

 

[cv_02kr]

Show screenshot from BIOS - CSM options.
It's possible your pc tries to boot in UEFI mode first, then in legacy mode.
OS is installed in legacy mode. So UEFI mode will not work.

https://imgur.com/a/WgcnY7K

View: https://imgur.com/a/WgcnY7K


I remember messing around with this, but I don't remember what all I tried.

 

[DRagor]

First BIOS screenshot suggests there is some problem with RAID mode enabled while there is obviously no RAID array on this machine. I would suggest to investigate in this direction.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I remember messing around with this, but I don't remember what all I tried.

Set boot device control to Legacy only.

 

[cv_02kr]

Switched it to legacy only boot, changed nothing.

First BIOS screenshot suggests there is some problem with RAID mode enabled while there is obviously no RAID array on this machine. I would suggest to investigate in this direction.

What all should I do for this? To be honest, I don't even know what a RAID setup is.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Switched it to legacy only boot, changed nothing.

Did you save bios changes and reboot after that?

 

[cv_02kr]

Did you save bios changes and reboot after that?

Of course.

 

[cv_02kr]

Looked into the RAID thing... yeah, no, can say with certainty I've never set up anything like that. When the issue started, I didn't even have more than one drive. I'm betting this is the cause of the problem. Question is, what to try to fix it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Question is, what to try to fix it?

Check sata controller mode settings in BIOS. Should be set to AHCI.

Note - change of sata controller mode settings may require reinstallation of windows.

 

[cv_02kr]

Check sata controller mode settings in BIOS. Should be set to AHCI.

Note - change of sata controller mode settings may require reinstallation of windows.

It's not set to raid... it's set to the proper AHCI.

https://imgur.com/a/7fvUvcy

View: https://imgur.com/a/7fvUvcy


I feel like I checked that at one point. There's no way it created a RAID configuration on its own? I mean it seems like a pretty in depth process to even accomplish. This is the only place in BIOS where I can find anything about RAID configuration at all. Just this one single setting.

 

[cv_02kr]

https://imgur.com/a/ILO8I9b

View: https://imgur.com/a/ILO8I9b


Clicking around and found something weird. Unless I'm understanding this option wrong, should this not have the boot drive (500mb) listed here? Not the TB?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Clicking around and found something weird. Unless I'm understanding this option wrong, should this not have the boot drive (500mb) listed here? Not the TB?

Yes. First boot option should be 500GB drive (not 1TB).
Check Hard Drive BBS Priorities.

 

[cv_02kr]

Yes. First boot option should be 500GB drive (not 1TB).
Check Hard Drive BBS Priorities.

Reset it as it's meant to be... I have no idea when that changed itself? Regardless it did nothing.