Bios Keeps changing boot order...

theog said:

Also you may a defective CMOS/ BIOS battery.

Yep, that's possible too. It would be consistent with the behaviour described. Good point.

Regards....Mike Connor

I thought id give it a day or 2, to see what happens, and it always happens after a power down, but not restart.

I may have to switch the battery as a last resort, but whats the chances of the battery failing as soon as i upgrade the HDD's?

Deltawar said:

I thought id give it a day or 2, to see what happens, and it always happens after a power down, but not restart.

I may have to switch the battery as a last resort, but whats the chances of the battery failing as soon as i upgrade the HDD's?

Try reseating the battery.

Did you try removing the RAID to see if Win7 will boot correctly?

You may still need to remove the RAID using the RAID controller which comes up on first boot screen, or by changing the SATA controller setting to AHCI or IDE mode.

But first try removing all other HD's to see how it performs, then add back the HD's one at a time without RAID.

Deltawar said:

I thought id give it a day or 2, to see what happens, and it always happens after a power down, but not restart.

I may have to switch the battery as a last resort, but whats the chances of the battery failing as soon as i upgrade the HDD's?

The motherboard batteries rarely "fail" as such, ( one reason one tends to simply forget about them when troubleshooting! :) ) They simply run down over time and can no longer supply the power to keep the CMOS BIOS settings. They usually last at least three years, sometimes a lot longer. On many thousands of boards over the years I have only ever had three where the battery "Failed" in the sense that it became defective. But years ago the batteries were not quite as reliable as they are now in terms of quality and life expectancy.

Some boards allow a secondary BIOS on the Boot HDD which allows an immediate restore when the system boots. Of course it has to find the boot disk to do that! :)

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the battery is your problem. The symptoms are typical. I should have noticed that immediately. It used to happen quite a lot but only happens rarely now.

Regards....Mike Connor

Is the SSD set as first to boot in BIOS setup?

If you'll post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt drive map with all drives plugged, we can try to help you make the RAID unbootable since you seem to want to keep it. Use Snipping Tool in Start Menu, attach file with paper clip in reply box.

It has a 14GB recovery partition that i cant delete also.

It doesnt detect it when i first boot up, only after i ctrl alt del from bootmgr is missing, then if i enter bios it deects the SSD.

It's almost certainly due to having the mix of RAID with SATA drives settings.

What was the reason you wanted RAID for all of that data in the first place?

I would not have set up RAID as it is dated technology that offers no performance advantage and loses all of your data if one HD dies. This defeats the whole purpose of redundancy. Win7 has built-in drive imaging to save backup to another HD, and you can automate the Backup to include files.

How is the RAID set up here? Do you have a card or is it an onboard setting which can be set separately for each port? I would copy off my data then set the other HD's to run in AHCI mode so they can benefit from hot-plugging.

You can also run Startup Repair from the DVD Repair console or Repair CD to see if it will repair the SSD startup. Ignore the drive letters. I see no other System active, although you could mark D Inactive first to be sure: Partition - Mark as Active

I Didnt set it up myself, The pc came from sony like that, and im guessing its onboard.

The BIOS, has no RAID/AHCI/IDE settings, the only setting i can set in the bios is: VIEW RAID INFO [SHOW] [HIDE]