Hi, I have a problem with a newly installed Intel 535 SSD
On a cold reboot the BIOS doesn't see the SSD disk until I unplug the SATA data cable & the power cable & plug them back in. Just unplugging the data cable & re-attaching it doesn't work, it has to be power cycled. After that, no problems, the machine sees the SSD & boots up.
Drive toolbox doesn't report anything wrong, except, AE the unexpected power loss count is at 2
I obviosley don't want to have to do this every time I want to boot my machine, and the connectors are rated at 250 mating cycles. So probably won't see the year out, if the drive doesn't break first.
The PC has been installed with Windows 7 Which was a bare metal install from the DVD. All drivers have been installed from the motherboard DVD & updated to the latest versions. & Of course the 200+ Windows updates!
I have also set the Windows power management to never power down the drive, as I have had a few BSOD's when the machine was coming out of sleep mode. This did solve that particular problem, but still, the disk wasn't coming out of a power down or sleep situation.
The PC is switched off from the mains when not in use. As is everything else connected to it. Except network.
Motherboard is a ASUS SabertoothZ97 mark2/USB3.1 with the lates BIOS installed
Intel SSD is a 535 480GB with firmware version RG21
SSD disk is plugged into SATA port 0
Blu-Ray drive is plugged into SATA port 1 Which has always been detected.
Any suggestions?