Computer I wish I had never agreed to work on!

[brettjameslive]

So, it'd the dreaded machine of doom again.

As outlined in a previous post, I have a machine that has the following:

3GB x 2 SATA drives set up a RAID 1 Mirror
750GB Seagate Momentus 7500RPM 2.5" HDD - This is the boot drive
1GB WDC - Blue 32MB Cache
2GB WDC - Green 32MB Cache

So there are 5 physical disks in the machine.

Mobo is an Asus P97 Sabretooth 1155

Now, when I am prompted to press Del to enter the UEFI Bios, and I do (it splashes twice, but I understand this is a common issue), I see NO reference anywhere, to the primary boot drive, excpet in the boot override options. The WDC drives are listed, but that's it.

I just did a full migration from the 750GB drive to a Samsung evo 840 500GB SSD, it says it was a success, install the SSD and bang. It won't boot from it. Can see it in the Boot Override options in the UEFI but again not anywhere else.

In fact, the boot in the BIOS, doesn't seem to represent the ACTUAL boot.

Mystified!!

Any ideas people? I would be very grateful for some other great minds....

 

[katz]

I don't know about a "great" mind...but...

Are you certain it's not a motherboard issue? Asus has been very flaky in recent times. Awhile back I built a desktop with parts that the customer purchased & brought to me;

Asus motherboard, etc. etc., we went through three motherboard replacements before we got one that worked. In all cases they exhibited boot issue similar to those that you are describing.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

I will say I have worked on a few systems with Asus boards and had issues. Changed to Gigabyte boards and no issues since.

 

[Markverhyden]

How did you migrate? If you were using UEFI the drive must be GPT and not all methods properly support GPT.

 

[discipulus]

With the asus dual bios efi, you will need to click on exit / advanced in the upper right corner to modify any options like boot order etc.