boot order

[stew50]

I have an old HP 8200 Elite Bios 2.33 ( I think) I switched my SSD system drive to SATA3 and set the boot order in the BIOS. When I re-start or re-boot the boot order is changed and it will not boot . I have two other drives installed.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Plug the SATA data cable from your SSD to SATA Port 0.

That is the port you boot the main drive from.

If you have a 3.5" drive plugged into the SATA 0 port, move the data connector to SATA port 1.

SATA 1 is for a secondary drive and SATA 2 is for the DVD.

SATA 3 is for a third hard drive or second optical drive.

[stew50]

Thanks, Paul, So simple I had the SSD in Esata which I mistook for SATA3 . I'm a bit dyslexic. It was working previously but I was only getting 134.17 MB/s read speed so tried a few changes.  Now it's much improved. Now I'm getting 500 MB/s which is the spec for this Kingston drive.  I'm going to check my main computer now which is a no-name. Thanks again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Only the SATA 0 and SATA 1 ports in the 8200 Elite can run a SATA drive at the full 6.0 GBPS speed.

The other two ports are SATA 3.0 GBPS.

[stew50]

Thanks again, I did not know that. Then again maybe I should RTFM next time.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

I have two HP 8200 Elite CMT's running with i7-2600 processors, 32 GB of memory, SATA SSD's and Windows 11 Pro.

They still work very nicely.

The only thing I don't like is they only have USB 2 ports.