What does P1-P4 mean in boot order?

[plrbear1028]

I had a hard time with booting this morning and I realized that the HDD was in front of the SSD in boot menu. I changed it and I noticed that there's P1,P2,P3,P4 at the end of each boot device. What do they mean? which order should I have the boot menu in, so I can boot up quickly? I have an ssd, 2 hdd, and an optical drive.

 

[weilin]

likely the SATA port the device is plugged into... If you look on your board and you may see silk-screening of the port numbers and you can see if they match.

if the 2 HDs are just for storage and never for boot purposes, you can just remove them from the boot list and just have the SSD and optical disk drive (ODD). List the SSD first and the ODD second and you're good to go.

 

[plrbear1028]

likely the SATA port the device is plugged into... If you look on your board and you may see silk-screening of the port numbers and you can see if they match.

if the 2 HDs are just for storage and never for boot purposes, you can just remove them from the boot list and just have the SSD and optical disk drive (ODD). List the SSD first and the ODD second and you're good to go.

Thank you. Does p1 stand for priority 1 ?

 

[weilin]

It could be (SATA) Port 1 or priority 1... I'm more inclined to say Port 1. Without seeing the BIOS it's hard to say.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

probably port one. Though I've reverse the suggestion: CD first, then SSD. usually you won't boot from the CD/DVD drive, but when you want to, its nice fr it to already be first in the order. It might add only a second or two to boot time