[SOLVED] Evga Z68 SLI micro will not boot from a working SSD boot drive

[Tutoh1]

I just bought a second-hand Evga Z68 SLI micro motherboard and I absolutely hate it.
I have a Silicon Power A55 128GB TLC 3D NAND 2.5in SATA SSD which I used as a boot drive on an ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE motherboard, then on a Gigabyte ga-z87m-d3h motherboard. It booted fine on both these boards. UEFI boot. GPT disk. ACPI mode.
The Evga Z68 SLI micro does recognise the drive, but it won't boot from it. It's set to ACPI and as far as I know, it uses UEFI bios.
The SSD is definitely in SATA 0. I'm at a complete loss.

 

[Nuwan Fernando]

You are saying that you used the same SSD without OS reinstallation on a Z77 then a Z87 and now you are going to use it in a Z68 chipset?

You are lucky that it booted up on Z87 in the first place with the OS of a Z77.

Just reinstall the OS in your Evga Z68 SLI micro to make it work.

 

[SkyNetRising]

The Evga Z68 SLI micro does recognise the drive, but it won't boot from it. It's set to ACPI and as far as I know, it uses UEFI bios.

ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface?

You have to set sata controller into AHCI mode.
You don't have to configure ACPI.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I would not flash BIOS provided from some unknown person. Flashing wrong BIOS will brick your motherboard.
Use only official EVGA BIOS.

https://www.evga.com/support/downlo...e=BIOS&accversion=R22&part_number=130-SB-E685

 

[Koekieezz]

I would not flash BIOS provided from some unknown person. Flashing wrong BIOS will brick your motherboard.
Use only official EVGA BIOS.

https://www.evga.com/support/downlo...e=BIOS&accversion=R22&part_number=130-SB-E685

That bios i gave is from evga, only changed the bios option via amibcp to ahci at all, both on Marvell controller and the bios option itself, as well as updated the microcode. I've done this many times and i could say this should be fine. But still you can use the R25 bios for SLI Micro here (it's E682 for SLi Micro, not E685).

 

[USAFRet]

only changed the bios option via amibcp to ahci at all, both on Marvell controller and the bios option itself, as well as updated the microcode.

That counts as 'not official'.

Please do not suggest such again.

 

[geofelt]

Can you boot in safe mode(f8)?
If you can, you can try installing the required motherboard and chipset drivers.

 

[Tutoh1]

You are saying that you used the same SSD without OS reinstallation on a Z77 then a Z87 and now you are going to use it in a Z68 chipset?

You are lucky that it booted up on Z87 in the first place with the OS of a Z77.

Just reinstall the OS in your Evga Z68 SLI micro to make it work.

Thank you, I didn't realise that OS installations worked that way. I installed a new OS on another SSD drive and it's running fine now.