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BIOS shuffling boot order

TheCherryKing
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On my main PC the BIOS have been shuffling the boot order of the hard drives and SSDs. Most of the time when I turn on my PC it attempts to boot from an SSD without a bootable operating system. I've had countless problems with this BIOS even on my old motherboard. I have not updated the BIOS because it is already running the latest BIOS version. The motherboard is the Supermicro X10DAC. I am unsure whether there is a problem with the motherboard or the onboard RAID. What could be causing these problems?

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How old is the board?  Might want to replace the onboard battery.  It is a standard 2032 watch battery.  If the battery goes dead, it won't save any of your settings in the BIOS/CMOS.  If you do replace it, just make sure that you make sure the polarity on the battery is correct when inserting the new battery onto the mobo.

 

 

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Just now, kb5zue said:

How old is the board?  Might want to replace the onboard battery.  It is a standard 2032 watch battery.  If the battery goes dead, it won't save any of your settings in the BIOS/CMOS.  If you do replace it, just make sure that you make sure the polarity on the battery is correct when inserting the new battery onto the mobo.

 

 

The board is two months old. I have tried different batteries and still got the same results.

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Make sure that the drive you want to boot to in in sata port 0 or 1, then all the drives are in others, some motherboards have two ports that are designed for boot drives and are different colours. Then make sure that you are saving the bios config properly, not just quitting the bios. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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3 hours ago, fixitnow said:

Make sure that the drive you want to boot to in in sata port 0 or 1, then all the drives are in others, some motherboards have two ports that are designed for boot drives and are different colours. Then make sure that you are saving the bios config properly, not just quitting the bios. 

The only devices that are plugged into the SATA ports are the two optical drives. I save and reset every time I make changes in the BIOS.

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2 hours ago, TheCherryKing said:

The only devices that are plugged into the SATA ports are the two optical drives. I save and reset every time I make changes in the BIOS.

Hmmm, Do you have RAID set up? I have seen issue with that before, and especially raid cards. You might be able to disable the slave controller so that the BIOS will only detect the drive that are connected to the master (not technically correct, but that the only way I can think to explain it), those drives should show up in windows. I would go through the bios settings making sure that there isn't an auto boot option. , I had a PC once that decided what drive it was going to boot to, very annoying. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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41 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

Hmmm, Do you have RAID set up? I have seen issue with that before, and especially raid cards. You might be able to disable the slave controller so that the BIOS will only detect the drive that are connected to the master (not technically correct, but that the only way I can think to explain it), those drives should show up in windows. I would go through the bios settings making sure that there isn't an auto boot option. , I had a PC once that decided what drive it was going to boot to, very annoying. 

Hardware RAID is set up on two hard drives. However, those are not the drives I am trying to boot from. Modern drive interfaces don't use master and slave like IDE and Parallel SCSI did. This RAID card supports Serial Attached SCSI 12 Gb/s and includes Avago Technologies MPT SAS3 BIOS. Perhaps the RAID BIOS needs to be updated.

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Just now, TheCherryKing said:

Hardware RAID is set up on two hard drives. However, those are not the drives I am trying to boot from. Modern drive interfaces don't use master and slave like IDE and Parallel SCSI did. This RAID card supports Serial Attached SCSI 12 Gb/s and includes Avago Technologies MPT SAS3 BIOS. Perhaps the RAID BIOS needs to be updated.

My PC does, SATA 3.....

I don't know then, all I could think of is that the CMOS is being cleared every time you power of the PC which would indicate a dead battery or that the circuit near the battery is damaged. 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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My PC does, SATA 3.....

I don't know then, all I could think of is that the CMOS is being cleared every time you power of the PC which would indicate a dead battery or that the circuit near the battery is damaged. 

Is your SATA controller set to IDE mode instead of AHCI? The CMOS is not being cleared out every time because all of the other settings I have set are unchanged. Networking, BIOS mode, SATA mode, and chipset settings remain the same. 

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Just now, TheCherryKing said:

Is your SATA controller set to IDE mode instead of AHCI? The CMOS is not being cleared out every time because all of the other settings I have set are unchanged. Networking, BIOS mode, SATA mode, and chipset settings remain the same. 

nope, guess my mobo is just a bit different. 

Is the BIOS up to date? 

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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1 minute ago, TheCherryKing said:

I'm not sure. It's from 2015 and I can't find any information for BIOS updates on the Broadcom website.

http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/results.aspx 

Do this at your own risk...

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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