BIOS recognizes boot drive but windows does not boot

[Special Agent 星雨]

Hello linustechtips,

 

Today I have a very annoying situation on my hands.

 

I bought a new 750GB SSD a few weeks ago and was super stoked to put it in my rig, however, the new SATA data cable that I ordered to go with the new SSD was in fact too short to reach where I had mounted the SSD.

 

But I realized that the SATA cable that was plugged into my operating system drive (120GB SSD) was long enough to reach where my new SSD was mounted, so I detached the old SATA cable from my boot drive, plugged that one into my new SSD and used the new, but shorter SATA cable and plugged that into my motherboard/boot drive.

 

When I then booted windows by pressing the power button on the PC case, the BIOS screen showed that it detected three SATA devices, being my boot drive, the new SSD and my optical DVD drive. However, when it then showed the windows logo, my computer shut down instantly, even without showing the spinning group of dots (Windows 10). As the windows logo was not accompanied with the group of dots I was convinced my new SATA cable was faulty, so I got it refunded and ordered a new one (from a different supplier).

 

It's been 4 (or 5? I don't even remember now) different SATA cables from different suppliers, all refunded by *me* because they apparently all "didn't work", have I now realized that something must be up. Either I'm SUPER UNLUCKY with SATA cables or something else is happening and I'm just assuming it's the SATA cables problem.

 

Any additional information required to help me with this problem I will be happy to provide.

 

PLEASE HELP!

 

Computer Specs:

I5-2400 CPU

GTX 770 GPU

Corsair HX650 PSU

Asus P8H61 MOBO

Edited December 22, 2016 by Special Agent 星雨
missed "me" in sentence.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its not the cable. Do you see a option for UEFI boot on that drive?

 

 

[Special Agent 星雨]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its not the cable. Do you see a option for UEFI boot on that drive?

 

 

Um... I remember seeing that option in the BIOS somewhere, I will restart my computer and have a look now. But IIRC, yes, there is an option for UEFI boot on the boot drive.

[Special Agent 星雨]

I see a PCI ROM Priority, I'm not sure whether this is the relevant section, it allows me to choose Legacy ROM or EFI compatible ROM, of which Legacy ROM was selected previously.