Hi,
Hopefully someone will be able to help me out regarding this issue. I purchased an 400GB Intel 750 series PCI-E SSD a few months ago along with an MSI X99S Power AC motherboard. Both Intel’s documentation and MSI’s report that the these two pieces of hardware are compatible. There was no issue in installing Windows 10 Professional 64-bit and when running the drive works perfectly (no issues reported from the SSD tool box) however I noticed about a week later that almost randomly the PC would be unable to boot and the “No boot media has been found. ” message would be shown. Even after restarting the PC multiple times, checking the BIOS itself the SSD just would not show up. My only solution was to turn the power supply off and leave the PC for 5 minutes. This would also occur when going into sleep mode as well.
I should also note that the BIOS is up to the latest version offered by MSI (1.80) and the SSD firmware is up to the latest version according to the Intel SSD Toolbox.
In setting up the drive and trying to trouble shoot this issue over the past few months I have double and triple checked the BIOS settings recommended by Intel (UEFI mode only, disable all boot device bar UEFI hard drive, disable FastBoot) and I have also tried different PCI-E slots.
My specs are:
CPU: Intel 5820K
Motherboard: MSI X99S Power AC
GPU: Nvidia GTX 980 (EVGA)
RAM: G-Skill 16GB 2100MHz DDR4
Case: CoolerMaster HAF X
My only guesses as to why this is happening is either down to a missed BIOS setting, an issue with the motherboard (oddly enough when trying the drive in the last PCI-E slot as recommended the for detection issues it doesn’t seem to get any power at all) or possibly a thermal issue with the SSD as I know that the 750 series need decent airflow and run quite hot.
Thanks