[SOLVED] NVMe SSD isn't detected in some restarts

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I'll try to be as descriptive as possible,

Starting my PC from a normal shutdown will go seamlessly (with fast startup enabled) and even going into the BIOS will show me that my SSD is detected and being used. However, sometimes when I restart after playing something or opening some programs for whatever reason it takes me to the BIOS.

The boot menu will be blank, it won't show Windows Boot Manager nor the SSD itself. The odd thing is that after installing new AMD drivers for my cpu, and doing a restart from Windows it all went fine.

Another thing that I noticed is, my system will jump straight into windows and ignore the 3 second POST delay, this will only happen on successful restarts/boots, and when it doesn't cut corners, it will do the aforementioned event, forcing me to hard restart my pc.

Any solutions?
 
Solution
Update to latest BIOS.

If you have other drives in the system, disconnect them and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then you probably have old Windows boot partitions on that/those drives that need to be removed. Removing them MIGHT require reinstalling Windows if Windows saw the boot partition on those drives and didn't create a new one for your M.2 drive when Windows was installed on it or cloned to it. If it was cloned, then that would have been your fault, not Windows fault.

If none of that is the cure, then it's probably an intermittently faulty drive although it certainly COULD be something related to the storage controllers on the motherboard in which case you'd need to replace the motherboard. If you have multiple M.2...
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Noted, also I restarted and all good, first boot of the day went flawlessly, so as long as I dont access the bios in a restart, all is good. I can finally rest

Thank you for your help Darkbreeze!