Question Weird SSD problems...

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Basically, at a random point of time when I reboot my machine it won't boot. It'll get stuck at the "ASUS" BIOS logo. And then when I unplug, reboot, and plug the SSD back in, it boots just fine. No errors during use! Another thing, when I try to boot off a USB drive with the SSD plugged in it also freezes.

The only indicator lights that flash is a red light once during boot, and I've heard that's normal.

My motherboard is an ASUS P8B75-M
 
Basically, at a random point of time when I reboot my machine it won't boot. It'll get stuck at the "ASUS" BIOS logo. And then when I unplug, reboot, and plug the SSD back in, it boots just fine. No errors during use! Another thing, when I try to boot off a USB drive with the SSD plugged in it also freezes.

The only indicator lights that flash is a red light once during boot, and I've heard that's normal.

My motherboard is an ASUS P8B75-M
Post a screenshot from crystal disk info for all disk.
 
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Nothing shows bad.

Is there some reason you did not use the sata 3 port for the ssd?
I do believe this is a motherboard from 2012 paired with an SSD purchased in 2020. So it's highly likely there's a bottleneck.

I'm pretty much lost with whats wrong with my system. Now when a USB drive is plugged in it just does a reboot loop.

Here's the entire PC's specs in case needed:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050ti (4gb VRAM, ASUS card)
RAM: 3gb 4x (12gb) 1333 MHz
SSD: Sandisk SDSSDH3512G (512 GB Capacity)
Motherboard: ASUS P8B75-M
BIOS Revision: Latest
Operating System/System Software: Windows 10 Professional (19044.2006) 22H1 (I think)

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When using a different drive and plugging in a USB drive, it still gets stuck on the logo. Only one test of the known working drive has been done, so I have yet to determine whether it is the cable or the drive.
 
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You do have a sata 3 port on the mobo.

Try it.
I heavily question how that will fix the issue.

Also the only ports are a Sata 3G port, and a Sata 6G port. The Sata 3G being present, and the Sata 6G being just a mountain point for a header.

Update: Sata 3G is Sata 2, I don't have Sata 3 with this board.
 
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It appears that the system works fine even after rebooting as long as I don't boot off the SSD. Unplugging the Sata change but not the power cable didn't fix the issue even temporarily. So it has to be something related to power.
 

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Are you sure it is the SSD? When I get similar issues, it is always some USB-device. Doesn't have to be storage. BIOS just struggles identifying the USB device so a boot takes forever. Try unplugging USB-devices until it goes away. It could be USB-device, it could be a USB-port as well. I know I have one faulty USB-port. Linux told me (in the boot-up logs). So I don't use that port.
Just last week I had a MicroSD-card that was so damaged, no partitioning program would work on it. I tried in Linux, in Windows. And it would take forever to boot my machine. I used a USB-toMicroSD-adapter. So that explains it.
 
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after hours of tinkering and doing things, it no longer freezes after a reboot. But one issue still exists.

If ANY USB drive is plugged into the device, and a reboot is done. It will freeze at the bios logo, and whenever a USB drive is unplugged and I reboot again.. it works