I have recently upgraded my second drive from an Hitachi 2TB HD to a 4TB Seagate SSHD. It is connected to the third SATA3 port, the second is taken by my Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray Writer BDR-209M. The Corsair SSD is on the first SATA port.
I have the following problems with this configuration.
With Fast Boot enabled, the second drive (D:\) would disappear. Didn't matter when, it would always disappear. Sometimes at boot, sometimes in the middle of doing anything on the PC. Gaming, browsing, encoding, it didn't matter what was happening. Occasionally you would get through a session with this not happening.
Then a week or so ago I noticed it was not there at boot for a few days, as I have an SSD for the boot drive, with my paging file on the D:\ drive, Windows (8.1) would always warn that it had created a temporary paging file on the C:\ drive, as the D:\ drive was not available. On that occasion I entered the BIOS, and turned on the AMD AHCI BIOS ROM, thinking it may help. It did, for that boot, but after that the POST would stop with error 62, chipset initialisation error. This required resetting the CMOS to get it to boot.
I entered the BIOS, turned off the AHCI BIOS ROM, and I also left Fast Boot disabled. After that, no more problems, until I decided to turn fast boot on again. Once I did that, Windows would do a check disk each and every boot. Turn it off and no problems.
So, my question is, has anyone else had problems with SSHD's with this board or BIOS? Is it related to the 4TB size? Or are there any other thoughts? I obviously have turned Fast Boot off, but as it does make a real difference in boot time, even with an SSD boot drive, I would like to turn it back on.
Richard
I have the following problems with this configuration.
With Fast Boot enabled, the second drive (D:\) would disappear. Didn't matter when, it would always disappear. Sometimes at boot, sometimes in the middle of doing anything on the PC. Gaming, browsing, encoding, it didn't matter what was happening. Occasionally you would get through a session with this not happening.
Then a week or so ago I noticed it was not there at boot for a few days, as I have an SSD for the boot drive, with my paging file on the D:\ drive, Windows (8.1) would always warn that it had created a temporary paging file on the C:\ drive, as the D:\ drive was not available. On that occasion I entered the BIOS, and turned on the AMD AHCI BIOS ROM, thinking it may help. It did, for that boot, but after that the POST would stop with error 62, chipset initialisation error. This required resetting the CMOS to get it to boot.
I entered the BIOS, turned off the AHCI BIOS ROM, and I also left Fast Boot disabled. After that, no more problems, until I decided to turn fast boot on again. Once I did that, Windows would do a check disk each and every boot. Turn it off and no problems.
So, my question is, has anyone else had problems with SSHD's with this board or BIOS? Is it related to the 4TB size? Or are there any other thoughts? I obviously have turned Fast Boot off, but as it does make a real difference in boot time, even with an SSD boot drive, I would like to turn it back on.
Richard
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