P8P67 Pro takes gaes to recognize SSD?

**jase888** · July 2nd, 2012, 11:53 AM

Hi

I have installed an ssd onto my pc and it was working fine for a few days then i shut pc down one night and it took a while to shut down (2-3mins) so i turned it back on and it now waits at the screen saying "hit del to enter bios" for nearly 5 mins then beeps once and loads up windows.

Any ideas what to do, someone told me to go into bios and save settings but it didn't work, not a clue why it takes so long to recognize it when it didn't before i haven't changed anything.

Only thing i can think that i did different was put it into sleep mode at on point but it came back from that. I have also checked that it is in that ahci mode on bios and tried saving the bios again incase anything had changed.

Any help would be appreciated, at this rate will be goiong back to standard hdd.

**stroyal** · July 2nd, 2012, 12:21 PM

Can't say I have ever had an SSD, but it sounds like it failed.

Did you try the SSD manufacturers sight, to see if they have a diagnostic disk.
They all have them for HDs

What brand and model is the SSD?

Seems to me several had a problem going to sleep, and never waking again, but there was a firmware fix. Not after they failed though.

**jase888** · July 2nd, 2012, 01:03 PM

Its an intel 520 ssd 120gb. Its all up to date as well just checked, when it went to sleep it came back and that it is just slow at reconising what the boot is. I just put boot from cd 1st and restarted pc and its still takes 5 mins on that hit del for bios screen then loads.

I think it must be some kind of motherboard issue but dont know what

**stroyal** · July 2nd, 2012, 01:21 PM

Intel is the best one, as far as I have read.
I don't think Intel had that problem either.

The only easy thing I can think of, is a BIOS setting.

I don't have any experience with a total SATA board, but is it looking for a device that is not hooked up like it would for IDE, if the BIOS was set to look for a drive, not there,

Myself, if I couldn't figure it out, format C: would my next move, to see if a clean install solves the problem.
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It takes time, but trouble shooting can take longer.

**jase888** · July 2nd, 2012, 02:51 PM

Ok i took the pc apart and switched the ssd and hdd over in the intel ports so ssd was in port 0 and hdd in port 1. This worked but then I put the case back on and plugged everything back in and the same issue occured.

When windows did start after staying on that bios start screen for 5, it said "failed to install device driver, so i unplugged the excternal hdd which was in usb 3.0 port and it works fine (touch wood) but I don't understand why it does this as I have the usb 3.0 drivers installed.

Any ideas why particular devices plugged in would make motherboard take so long to find boot device, have you heard of this before? seems very strange that it would affect it at that point?

Do i just need to update driver for usb, im guessing?

**stroyal** · July 2nd, 2012, 05:13 PM

I have seen USB stopping a boot, if they can't find drivers, or if the port was switched, when the computer was shutdown, or if the device is bad.

How it related to this, I'm not sure.

**jase888** · July 2nd, 2012, 05:55 PM

That's good thought I'd messed up pc lol. Someone told me reason it was staying on that screen so long could be because it was trying to boot from external hdd, will have to try that tomorrow night though. Anyway it's booting n shutting down quickly now, it occasionally takes just underin to shutdown, dunno why but overall it's working finally.

Thanks for your help Stroyal

**jase888** · July 2nd, 2012, 05:56 PM

Just under a min*

**ShyguyXPC** · July 2nd, 2012, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by jase888

Ok i took the pc apart and switched the ssd and hdd over in the intel ports so ssd was in port 0 and hdd in port 1. This worked but then I put the case back on and plugged everything back in and the same issue occured.

When windows did start after staying on that bios start screen for 5, it said "failed to install device driver, so i unplugged the excternal hdd which was in usb 3.0 port and it works fine (touch wood) but I don't understand why it does this as I have the usb 3.0 drivers installed.

Any ideas why particular devices plugged in would make motherboard take so long to find boot device, have you heard of this before? seems very strange that it would affect it at that point?

Do i just need to update driver for usb, im guessing?

check the bios for boot order, make sure USB devices is not in the list.

also just for sh*ts and giggles, disable AHCI in the mobo's Bios settings for drives, and see if that speeds up boot up on the SSD.