Force F90 / Acer BIOS Detection Issue

[falken98]

Just installed a Corsair Force F90 in my Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T.

The problem is the BIOS does not detect the drive at power up. The drive is not detected in BIOS menu and system will report there are no bootable devices.

 

However, if I reboot without power cycling the drive is then detected properly. I have installed Windows 7 and the drive operates and reboots perfectly but once I power the system down and back on it once again fails to detect the drive until I reboot.

 

This is repeatable 100% of the time. Power down/power on, not detected, ctrl-alt-del to reboot, detected.

 

I have verified I have the latest BIOS for my laptop and since this is the new F90 it already has the 2.0 firmware installed.

 

Any ideas? :biggrin:

[falken98]

I just discovered the system also crashes when trying to wake up from sleep mode as it can not access the drive, attempted 5 times, blue screened every time.

 

Sleep mode functions normally with standard HDD using same fresh installation of Win7.

[falken98]

Guess I will return it to the merchant as no one has any ideas. Not going to try another one as I don't know if it is defective or just not fully compatible with my BIOS.

[Wired]

The P series (Samsung based) is recomended for OEM systems. May want to try one of those.

[Synbios]

Yes I agree you should return the Force drive and get a P series, you will not have any problems with those and it will be a better match for your system considering your laptop will probably not use the full speed of a Force drive.