SSD not recognized in BIOS

[Kitr0]

Hello,

This is my first post on the site so not sure if I'll explain my problem well but here it goes. I recently bought an ssd for my laptop (Inspiron 15). After a couple hours of working on it I formatted it to NTFS and installed Windows 10 successfully. I started installing a game on it to see if it was going up to speed but during the download I got a black screen saying 'disk read error'. I then restarted the laptop but was given the same screen. I restarted it a couple times after that and eventually the bios simply wouldn't recognize the ssd. No disk read error anymore but rather it says 'no bootable device'. I checked the bios and my ssd vanished from its general specs. It says no hdd detected but it was detected before. I thought it was a faulty cable or possibly even motherboard but when I attached an hdd to the laptop it successfully recognized it. Any idea what could be the problem?

Thank you,

Kitr0

 

[P4-630]

Try the SSD on another computer, test if it still works, if not RMA.

 

[Kitr0]

Try the SSD on another computer, test if it still works, if not RMA.

Oh I should have mentioned that. I did put it in another laptop and it was recognized.
UPDATE: it switches back and forth between disk read error and simply not recognizing the drive at random. I'm starting to think the motherboard is messed up.

 

[Kitr0]

UPDATE: the motherboard is not sending power to the hard drive randomly. Sometimes it does sometimes it does not. Why would this be happening and how can I fix it? New motherboard? New cable?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Turn off all power save features, most wi.does installs are set to balanced or power save which can turn off the hdd,put it into high performance mode in power settings as most adds do not like this power save feature and yours Might be failing to resume, also try updating your data ahci drivers from the manufacturers website.

 

[95Viper]

Check and make sure your SSD has the latest firmware.
Next, make sure your laptop has the latest firmware.

And, try switching from ACHI to ATA or ATA to ACHI for testing.

Those Inspiron 15 series have a history of working and a while later they stop working with certain SSDs... the Samsung 840 Pro is one that this happens with.

 

[silkstone]

Quick question. Are you using it in the DVD bay using a caddy? If so, turning on and off power to that connector is a 'feature' on some laptops.
If not, try the tips above and if that doesn;t work, it's likely a failing connector/motherboard.

 

[Deleted member 110753]

Are you using it in the DVD bay using a caddy? If so, turning on and off power to that connector is a 'feature' on some laptops.

In this case, is there a way to have it always on?

 

[silkstone]

In this case, is there a way to have it always on?

I'm not sure. I haven't seen a way, but I haven't really searched.
I was planning on upgrading the storage on my laptop and the issue came up in some discussion threads. I haven't yet had the need to expand my storage yet, though.

 

[Frick]

Does it work with the HDD? If yes, RMA the SSD.

 

[Deleted member 110753]

I'm not sure. I haven't seen a way, but I haven't really searched.
I was planning on upgrading the storage on my laptop and the issue came up in some discussion threads. I haven't yet had the need to expand my storage yet, though.

As I replaced my HDD by a SSD and put my old HDD into a caddy, I'm hearing now the HDD stopping regularly.
I don't know if I have to do something somewhere...

 

[silkstone]

If you're not having problems, then you don't have to do anything.

 

[Deleted member 110753]

If you're not having problems, then you don't have to do anything.

It's OK, but I don't think it's the right mode for my HDD because of the spin-up time...

I've found : this !

 

[Deleted member 110753]

Finally, I used this great tool : Hard Disk Sentinel to set the APM to 128, which is the first value of my WD disk without spinning down...