[SOLVED] Windows Crash switches Boot option

[Insound]

Hello

In the last 2-3 months i got 2 of this issues , so let me explain :
- I just do my normal thing on pc , and at some point i try to click on a tab on a browser it doesnt respond after i click on it after i try to open task manager and nothing happens, then i restart the pc from the Restart button , and it boots the bios goes to boot the windows and it starts booting from the HDD and not from the Main boot SSD , and i got this issue 2 times , does anyone know why does it switches the boot option after it crashes and i restart it from the Restart button ? cuz if it happens to remove the Windows from the HDD what will happen since it wont have a 2nd drive to boot from ? also this switching from main boot (Sdd) to a secondary is it normal ?

Best regards,
Insound

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums!

Do you have two OSes installed on both your drives? If so, take out the HDD and see if the issue persists. Speaking of which, what OSes are you working with?

I'd also ask you to include a little more information. List your specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

including the age of the PSU.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Possible signs of SSD pre-failure.
SSD dissapears from system and system boots from next available bootable storage device.

If you remove windows from HDD and SSD dissapears again, your system becomes unbootable.

 

[Insound]

Hey , yes i will come with more informations , yes when i built my new pc 4 years ago , i used the old pc HDD which had Win 7 on it , but for the new pc i bought a SSD and i installed Win 10 on it but i didnt removed the Win 7 from the hdd ,


CPU: i5 6500
Motherboard: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING
Ram: 2x 8GB
SSD/HDD: WD Blue 1TB SATA-III 7200 RPM 64MB / SSD Patriot Spark
GPU: Nvidia GTX 980 Strix
PSU: Inter-Tech 500-600 W can't remember
Chassis: Deepcool Kendomen RD
OS: Win 10

But after i change the Boot from Bios back to SSD it works , should i worry about the SSD as @SkyNetRising said ?

 

[onespeedbiker]

So, does the boot order in the BIOS actually change, or does your PC boot out of order?

 

[Insound]

Yes , the SSD which is the main Boot it goes to the last slot and the next HDD goes on first

 

[onespeedbiker]

Try running msconfig click the boot tab and make sure the SSD is designated the default drive.. Also, as advised, unplug the hdd and make sure the ssd will boot without it.

 

[Insound]

I just checked in msconfig and only shows the ssd as Default OS

 

[onespeedbiker]

Adding the hdd as a second non-default OS drive, will likely result in a boot menu everytime you boot up, but it may solve your issue.

 

[Insound]

I will try and do that today, thank you for the answer.

 

[Colif]

Windows cannot change the boot order in the BIOS, this is more likely a hardware problem as suggested above

 

[Insound]

Okay , thank you , i will keep in mind that , sorry if i posted in the wrong category 😀

 

[Colif]

Its fine where you put it, I was just saying that its unlikely to be fixed by just messing with windows, you need to test both drives out to see if they are okay.

Patriot don't have a tool to test ssd, there is a freeware one but im not sure about it. I would run this on drive and check its SMART score - https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_trial.php
run this on hdd - https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3&lang=en

 

[onespeedbiker]

Its fine where you put it, I was just saying that its unlikely to be fixed by just messing with windows, you need to test both drives out to see if they are okay.

While I agree , I'm wondering if you had a dual boot system and the first drive on the boot order list fails, would the BIOS move the second to the first position?

 

[Colif]

I think the answer is the bios would try the drive, if it doesn't reply, it tries next drive in boot order. I am fairly sure windows cannot change boot order apart from maybe when it is first installed and adds the boot partition address into a Windows Boot Manager (if motherboard used that feature). @SkyNetRising probably knows the answer to that better than I do.

 

[onespeedbiker]

My thought is the boot order is built on available drives. If the a number 1 drive fails, it would disappear from the BIOS, so something in the BIOS would have to change.

 

[Insound]

I will try and google the motherboard and see if it has a feature that switches to 2nd available drive that has windows on it when 1st fails to load

 

[SkyNetRising]

No need to google that.
Basically every motherboard does it, if configured appropriately.

 

[popatim]

Motherboards tend to initially auto-populate the boot order based on what it's found so this is the kind of thing that happens when the boot drive disappears and you have another boot option in the list.

As for the SSD, I would contact them to see if there is a firmware update for this issue since there download page is Fubar.

 

[Colif]

Could it be the CMOS? That is one thing that can change boot order, as if BIOS forgets, it would be perhaps remaking a boot order every startup?

Maybe replace the battery?