Pc Powers on but no display or keyboard, second reset powers on fully...

[Dukeofthedurty]

I hit power button, and display, keyboard, and mouse dont turn on, I reset and it turns on... Whats going on?
I54690k
MSI SLI plus mobo
8Gb ram
256 crucial ssd
500gb hitachi hdd
antec htg 750w psu

 

[Karadjgne]

Turn off fast boot in bios. You have an SSD for OS drive so the extra few seconds saved is negligible.
I'd also drop hibernate from the sleep options as it's unnecessary on a pc and linked to fast boot. It'll also free up quite a bit of ssd usage.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

Works on 7,8,10 all the same.

 

[Dukeofthedurty]

I turned off fast boot, However now it boots first time, but it keeps changing order of harddrives to Toshiba hdd first, and not my ssd.... wtf. Is my power supply not booting my ssd before my hdd? Or why does it keep auto changing it? When I power on, i get a black command prompt looking screen that says f1 set up or f2 to boot... wtf

 

[Karadjgne]

Ok. Sounds crazy, but it works.
First, you'll need to identify which Sata port is which, you want the SSD in Port #0 and the HDD in Port #1.
After identify, leave the HDD in Port #1, but unplug JUST the Sata cable from Port #0, leave power to the SSD plugged in.
Hit the power button and leave the pc powered up for 10-30 minutes.
Do NOT turn power off, just plug the SSD Sata back into Port #0.
This will fix the issue, its a Crucial firmware issue where the SSD dissappears from the boot priority list, so your HDD becomes listed as primary boot, then swaps when the SSD gets recognised. That is quite common and Crucial's own site has a fix, but it's not reliable.
After doing so, check your bios to make sure the SSD is listed as primary boot (or at least is in line before the HDD).
Lastly, take a visit to Crucial and upgrade the firmware to at least version 10g

Hope that helps.

 

[Dukeofthedurty]

Ok. Sounds crazy, but it works.
First, you'll need to identify which Sata port is which, you want the SSD in Port #0 and the HDD in Port #1.
After identify, leave the HDD in Port #1, but unplug JUST the Sata cable from Port #0, leave power to the SSD plugged in.
Hit the power button and leave the pc powered up for 10-30 minutes.
Do NOT turn power off, just plug the SSD Sata back into Port #0.
This will fix the issue, its a Crucial firmware issue where the SSD dissappears from the boot priority list, so your HDD becomes listed as primary boot, then swaps when the SSD gets recognised. That is quite common and Crucial's own site has a fix, but it's not reliable.
After doing so, check your bios to make sure the SSD is listed as primary boot (or at least is in line before the HDD).
Lastly, take a visit to Crucial and upgrade the firmware to at least version 10g

Hope that helps.

Will this fry my mobo/sata socket by plugging it in while on? Would this effect my keyboard and monitor from even turning on? I figured it was more of a mobo issue than a harddrive issue...

I thought I fixed it in bios, but a few boots later, monitor and keyboard didnt respond, then had to restart, only to find the hardrive order was swapped again...

I will give the sata thing a try I guess, im pretty scared of frying the whole thing dong that though...

Why would the harddrive randomly start doing this? This is a 2 year old build... I figured it was the mobo dieing on me... Let me know! Thanks.

Edit: last question would uefi/legacy have anything to do with this? I am just so confused to why a 2 year old pc started having boot troubles unless somthing is bout to die...

 

[Karadjgne]

It's the SSD, not the HDD. There's a bug in the Crucial firmware (it's well documented) that has something to do with the uefi bios. What it's doing is causing the SSD to dissappear, temporarily, at boot up. Because the boot sequence no longer sees the SSD, it automatically goes to the next possible boot option. Which in your case, is the HDD. However. Your HDD does not contain windows, so your pc is actually booting, but windows is not starting because according to bios, windows on the SSD does not exist.

Using the above method forces the bios to recognize the SSD, but it has to be powered up for at least 10 minutes, better 20,to allow the firmware in the SSD time to get off its ash. The Sata needs to be unplugged or its data feeds suspend this action. But you will need to upgrade the firmware with the latest release or at least version 10g to make this a permanent fix.

Here's the original
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/How-I-fixed-my-M4-that-wouldn-t-detect-in-the-BIOS/td-p/110964

 

[Dukeofthedurty]

It's the SSD, not the HDD. There's a bug in the Crucial firmware (it's well documented) that has something to do with the uefi bios. What it's doing is causing the SSD to dissappear, temporarily, at boot up. Because the boot sequence no longer sees the SSD, it automatically goes to the next possible boot option. Which in your case, is the HDD. However. Your HDD does not contain windows, so your pc is actually booting, but windows is not starting because according to bios, windows on the SSD does not exist.

Using the above method forces the bios to recognize the SSD, but it has to be powered up for at least 10 minutes, better 20,to allow the firmware in the SSD time to get off its ash. The Sata needs to be unplugged or its data feeds suspend this action. But you will need to upgrade the firmware with the latest release or at least version 10g to make this a permanent fix.

Here's the original
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/How-I-fixed-my-M4-that-wouldn-t-detect-in-the-BIOS/td-p/110964

Nice, I will try it tomorrow, and I will post update. I also read it could be CMOS battery? Im confused at why the SSD ran perfect for 2 years without troubles and now its freaking out.

Any help finding a firmware update would be sweet too. I went to crucial website, M500 only has an update from back in 2013...

 

[Karadjgne]

Crazy. I just went to crucial, ssd support, downloads, m500 and the update is from 7/25/2014. The 500 isn't in production anymore so updates and support are limited. Mu05 I think was the version. Did you just run some windows updates when the SSD went nuts?

 

[Dukeofthedurty]

Crazy. I just went to crucial, ssd support, downloads, m500 and the update is from 7/25/2014. The 500 isn't in production anymore so updates and support are limited. Mu05 I think was the version. Did you just run some windows updates when the SSD went nuts?

Yep, I think I updated a few weeks ago, it began to slow my ssd boot times, until now, it is nearly 1min-2min before i even get the error screen at which I hit f1 to boot and f2 to go to bios... The more im seeing this, im thinking CMOS battery, motherboard issues, rather than SSD. This weekend I am switching around my ssd, to port 0, unplugging my hdd and second ssd and seeing if it helps anything. If not I may consider it a CMOS/mobo issue. I will try the firmware, but it being from 2014 does not make me think that it will help anything. :*(

 

[Karadjgne]

Well the m500 is kinda old too lol, these companies are not much different to Windows. Full support and upgrades etc until the next gen, then nada but legacy archives.

If the battery was an issue, the pc clock would get funky. But if you believe it's an issue, get a new battery. Both my lga1155's have the original batteries, so 3-4 yrs old already and still kicking.