I have a bunch of these old low capacity SSDs in my computer and I've been slow upgrading them over time. I've swapped out two other SSDs, and never had any issues until I replace my old 110 GB Crucial SSD. The Crucial was completely blank, I moved the few games off it months ago, and reformatted it. Hasn't been touched snice then. I don't think that information is important, but wanted to be clear it not the boot drive.
I've swapped it out with a 2TB PNY SSD. Now when I boot, it goes straight to the BIOS menu. So I figure it messed up the my boot drive settings, however it was set to boot off the correct drive. I save and exit, computer restarts, again straight to the BIOS menu again. Not sure what is happening, think I've lost my mind, and maybe I did replace my boot drive. I put the Crucial SSD in an external enclosure, and plug it into my front IO, restart my computer, and boots right into windows. I log in, and check This PC, the Crucial is completely empty, is not my boot drive. Everything is working fine, so I restart again without the Crucial drive plugged in, straight to BIOS. Restart again with the Crucial drive plugged in, normal boot, login to the desktop, everything is working fine. Out of curiosity I unplug the Crucial from my front IO, everything freezes, can't use my keyboard or mouse, nothing works. I plug it back in and everything is fine.
I don't understand, there is nothing on the drive, and don't know why my computer would be dependent on this SSD. I assuming it has to do something with the BIOS setting, but I'll be honest I don't understand the BIOS menus too well. My motherboard is an ASUS X99-Deluxe, so that the BIOS we're dealing with.
I've swapped it out with a 2TB PNY SSD. Now when I boot, it goes straight to the BIOS menu. So I figure it messed up the my boot drive settings, however it was set to boot off the correct drive. I save and exit, computer restarts, again straight to the BIOS menu again. Not sure what is happening, think I've lost my mind, and maybe I did replace my boot drive. I put the Crucial SSD in an external enclosure, and plug it into my front IO, restart my computer, and boots right into windows. I log in, and check This PC, the Crucial is completely empty, is not my boot drive. Everything is working fine, so I restart again without the Crucial drive plugged in, straight to BIOS. Restart again with the Crucial drive plugged in, normal boot, login to the desktop, everything is working fine. Out of curiosity I unplug the Crucial from my front IO, everything freezes, can't use my keyboard or mouse, nothing works. I plug it back in and everything is fine.
I don't understand, there is nothing on the drive, and don't know why my computer would be dependent on this SSD. I assuming it has to do something with the BIOS setting, but I'll be honest I don't understand the BIOS menus too well. My motherboard is an ASUS X99-Deluxe, so that the BIOS we're dealing with.