Hello and thank you for reading my post. I am building a new computer and I am running into an issue I hope someone may have a workaround for.
My specs:
MB - Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gamming GT ver 1, BIOS F5
CPU - Intel i7-6700k
RAM - 32GB (4 sticks of 8GB) G.Skill F4-3200C16Q-32GVKB
Video - EVGA 980 Ti Classified
HD1- Samsung 950 Pro (M.2) 512MB
HD2 - 4 x WD 2TB Black drives
CPU cooler - Corsair H100i GTX
Power - Corsair HX850i
This is my 5th build in probably the past 10-12 years. It has been about 3 years since my last build.
History (skip to the question if you don't want to read how I got there)
My first issue was trying to load Win 7 to the 950 Pro HD. Windows 7 did not recognize the drive. I eventually was able to get Win 7 loaded with using one of the 2 TB drives and using the Samsung tool to move the data over to the 950. That took a while but figured that one out. Then I added the HD's and found only drives connected to SATA_4 and SATA_5 worked. It took me a while to understand the manual M2D and M2H are reffering to the two different M.2 connectors on the MB. I changed it and then I lost the Win 7 partition (windows could not find it) and gave up on trying to get it to work with Win 7. I was able to get the 950 Pro loaded and going with Win 10. I now believe I lost the Win 7 partition for the same issue I am having below.
My happy surprise was when I turned on the XMP for the memory the MB recognized the 3200 speed on Auto so that was nice.
Question
OK, here is the issue/question. Everything is fine until I plug in the 4 WD 2TB Hard Drives. When I plug one or two I have no issues (AHCI only). When I boot the Gigabyte MB with 1 or 2 extra HD not in RAID it will boot fine. It will Boot to "Boot Option #1" which is "Windows Boot Manager". When I plug in all 4 extra HD's I have no issues in the Bios until I switch them over to Raid. After I reboot and get into the BIOS again the only Boot Option has changed to "Boot Option #1" as "Windows Boot Manager (Samsung SSD 950 Pro 512GB)". This is where it goes bad, windows can't find that partition. It took a while to realize it was changing the name of the Boot Option. If I recall it was opposite on the Win 7 build. It showd the names opposite and the "Windows Boot Manager" was unable to load. That is the issue, I can't boot to windows because there is no partition with that name. Maybe I can change it somewhere, I am not sure.
Also I do have the 950 Pro HD into the M2H_32G M.2 connector. Which states I can use all the SSD ports except for the SATA3_5 slot. I do not have anything plugged into the SATA3_5 slot.
Side question, it says I can't use SATA3_5 if I am using the PCIe x4 SSD for Hard Drives. Can I use it for a CD ROM or is it unavailable all together while using the M.2 drive.
Other then this I am having no issues with the MB.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
-Craig
My specs:
MB - Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gamming GT ver 1, BIOS F5
CPU - Intel i7-6700k
RAM - 32GB (4 sticks of 8GB) G.Skill F4-3200C16Q-32GVKB
Video - EVGA 980 Ti Classified
HD1- Samsung 950 Pro (M.2) 512MB
HD2 - 4 x WD 2TB Black drives
CPU cooler - Corsair H100i GTX
Power - Corsair HX850i
This is my 5th build in probably the past 10-12 years. It has been about 3 years since my last build.
History (skip to the question if you don't want to read how I got there)
My first issue was trying to load Win 7 to the 950 Pro HD. Windows 7 did not recognize the drive. I eventually was able to get Win 7 loaded with using one of the 2 TB drives and using the Samsung tool to move the data over to the 950. That took a while but figured that one out. Then I added the HD's and found only drives connected to SATA_4 and SATA_5 worked. It took me a while to understand the manual M2D and M2H are reffering to the two different M.2 connectors on the MB. I changed it and then I lost the Win 7 partition (windows could not find it) and gave up on trying to get it to work with Win 7. I was able to get the 950 Pro loaded and going with Win 10. I now believe I lost the Win 7 partition for the same issue I am having below.
My happy surprise was when I turned on the XMP for the memory the MB recognized the 3200 speed on Auto so that was nice.
Question
OK, here is the issue/question. Everything is fine until I plug in the 4 WD 2TB Hard Drives. When I plug one or two I have no issues (AHCI only). When I boot the Gigabyte MB with 1 or 2 extra HD not in RAID it will boot fine. It will Boot to "Boot Option #1" which is "Windows Boot Manager". When I plug in all 4 extra HD's I have no issues in the Bios until I switch them over to Raid. After I reboot and get into the BIOS again the only Boot Option has changed to "Boot Option #1" as "Windows Boot Manager (Samsung SSD 950 Pro 512GB)". This is where it goes bad, windows can't find that partition. It took a while to realize it was changing the name of the Boot Option. If I recall it was opposite on the Win 7 build. It showd the names opposite and the "Windows Boot Manager" was unable to load. That is the issue, I can't boot to windows because there is no partition with that name. Maybe I can change it somewhere, I am not sure.
Also I do have the 950 Pro HD into the M2H_32G M.2 connector. Which states I can use all the SSD ports except for the SATA3_5 slot. I do not have anything plugged into the SATA3_5 slot.
Side question, it says I can't use SATA3_5 if I am using the PCIe x4 SSD for Hard Drives. Can I use it for a CD ROM or is it unavailable all together while using the M.2 drive.
Other then this I am having no issues with the MB.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
-Craig
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