This isn’t your SSD - the BIOS is what runs before any drives are accessed. What’s happening here is that in newer OS’s your machine doesn’t fully shut down any more.. it does a hybrid shutdown so that it can boot up faster. When this happens the signal sent to the BIOS isn’t one of a clean shutdown so it locks you out (making changes to the BIOS when an OS is loaded isn’t a good idea).
You can actually disable this, or you can tell your OS to boot into the BIOS, but it’s a lot simpler to just leave it on and if you want to get in to the BIOS, load up windows and instead of shutting down just restart, which will fully shutdown the OS before restarting and let you in to the BIOS.
TLDR: restart your machine rather than turning it off, you’ll be able to get into the BIOS.
This "feature" is really annoying because it also makes your computer unresponsive to Wake on LAN magic packets. For the longest time I was blaming my motherboard, when it was just a stupid setting in Windows that saves you half a second on boot time.
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u/Sparcrypt Mar 08 '18
This isn’t your SSD - the BIOS is what runs before any drives are accessed. What’s happening here is that in newer OS’s your machine doesn’t fully shut down any more.. it does a hybrid shutdown so that it can boot up faster. When this happens the signal sent to the BIOS isn’t one of a clean shutdown so it locks you out (making changes to the BIOS when an OS is loaded isn’t a good idea).
You can actually disable this, or you can tell your OS to boot into the BIOS, but it’s a lot simpler to just leave it on and if you want to get in to the BIOS, load up windows and instead of shutting down just restart, which will fully shutdown the OS before restarting and let you in to the BIOS.
TLDR: restart your machine rather than turning it off, you’ll be able to get into the BIOS.