I'm having problems running 2 SSD drives on this board. I already have a Vertex 128GB as the C Drive with the OS and everything was working fine. To improve performance processing raw files in Adobe Lightroom I decided to upgrade my 1TB portable USB2 drive to a Crucial M500 960GB SSD.
I connected the new SSD via SATA cable to one of the spare ports then booted up, Created a partition (just a normal primary partition - not marked active), copied my files across and even tested the results in Lightroom and noticed the performance improvement right away.
Then when I restarted the PC it wouldn't boot. No error message just hanging with the white dots top left. I checked the BIOS and proved everything was set up correctly in the boot priority and even used the F12 option during boot up where you get the choice to override this and select what you want to boot from. Both SSDs were listed and I selected the Vertex but no matter what I do the machine will not boot into windows unless I remove the new SSD.
I've also tried it with absolutely nothing else connected except the USB keyboard.
A friend of mine reckons my only option is to replace the mobo, which sounds a bit drastic so I just wanted to ask if anyone else has any other ideas as to why this mobo can't seem to honour the boot priority when 2 SSDs are present. I've emailed Gigabyte but have no idea what their support is like or whether they will even respond.
I decided to register for this forum as all my google searches on this so far threw up threads here, although they weren't able to help with this specific problem.
I connected the new SSD via SATA cable to one of the spare ports then booted up, Created a partition (just a normal primary partition - not marked active), copied my files across and even tested the results in Lightroom and noticed the performance improvement right away.
Then when I restarted the PC it wouldn't boot. No error message just hanging with the white dots top left. I checked the BIOS and proved everything was set up correctly in the boot priority and even used the F12 option during boot up where you get the choice to override this and select what you want to boot from. Both SSDs were listed and I selected the Vertex but no matter what I do the machine will not boot into windows unless I remove the new SSD.
I've also tried it with absolutely nothing else connected except the USB keyboard.
A friend of mine reckons my only option is to replace the mobo, which sounds a bit drastic so I just wanted to ask if anyone else has any other ideas as to why this mobo can't seem to honour the boot priority when 2 SSDs are present. I've emailed Gigabyte but have no idea what their support is like or whether they will even respond.
I decided to register for this forum as all my google searches on this so far threw up threads here, although they weren't able to help with this specific problem.
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