SSD Trouble, very weird issue...

[BringTheRuck]

Hey guys, first time posting here after hours of continuous trouble shooting with my interesting problem regarding the installation of an SSD.

I just received a Asus ROG G751JT-CH71 today along with a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. Computer runs flawlessly with the factory 1tb 7200 RPM drive, however, when attempting to install an SSD I am having no luck.

The SSD does not show up as an available Boot option but is visible in the BIOS Sata configuration as a Serial ATA Port. It also shows up in the Device Manager under "disk drives," however, when attempting to create a volume label under Partition manager it doesn't show up at all. AHCI is set, I have tried updating BIOS, SSD is compatible, I'm not sure what is going on...

USB drives also rarely show up, I need to try several times before it finally detects.

EDIT: The SSD works and is detected by BIOS on other computers. Perhaps the computer is faulty?
Any ideas guys?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[spooky2th]

Update to the latest bios version or at least boot into bios and set optimized defaults then set the memory timings & speed. See if that helps.

 

[BringTheRuck]

Have tried all of that. Doesn't seem to fix the problem. What I also find odd is sometimes even the CD ROM doesn't show up in the boot priority list. Motherboard must be faulty.

 

[spooky2th]

Have tried all of that. Doesn't seem to fix the problem. What I also find odd is sometimes even the CD ROM doesn't show up in the boot priority list. Motherboard must be faulty.

I would guess the same thing...