So I just bought this Swift 3 here in Finland. (the variations per country for the Swift 3 are out of control, I would say its some variation of the 315-52)
i5 8th gen
8GB DDR4
Intel 620 UHD
2TB 5400 HDD
16GB Optane
And I figured replacing the HDD with an SSD (Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SATA III 2.5") would be a matter of swapping out the disk and a reinstall of Windows.
But apparently this is not the case, as the moment I connect the SSD (which is confirmed to be working in another laptop) I can't even get into the bios anymore.
no disk installed - bios can be entered
original 2TB disk - bios works, windows boots up fine etc..
SSD installed - no bios, no beeps, power button works, keyboard back light works.
Tried resetting the bios to default settings, but that didn't fly.. updated the bios to 1.05 version also to no avail.
Seems that the system is locked down / preventing me from adding a SSD?
Am I missing something here?
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Have you tried removing the Optane memory? If not, give it a try.
Acer Predator PT516-51s Performance Results - UserBenchmark
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http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/how_to/restore/restore_partitions_with_resize_and_reorder.htm
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Will give it a go after work.
(however I have to note, that with the SSD connected I don't even get into the bios anymore, and that seems different from the issue described there)
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tried a HDD from old macbook
tried a Hybrid disk from PS4
tried a very old 64 GB SSD
So that leaves my brand new (and working in other devices), Samsung Evo 860 Nand SSD that doesn't get detected and makes the system hang even.
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I bought another Hybrid disk (Seagate FireCuda 1TB) and that got detected all fine, installing Windows on it now
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The SSD is recognized in an older ACER laptop but not this one. I tried every setting in the BIOS, flashed the latest BIOS 1.07 and still no luck. I was also a victim of the BIOS PW bug too. Where if your BIOS password had a "k" or "m" in it it didn't accept it when trying to log in. That killed a half day and now this killed another half day... so far... Aside from that, has anyone had any luck with a >256GB SSD in these machines?
Just enter the following commands: diskpart, list disk, clean and convert gpt! Then just install windows!
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Since my last post I went and bought an M.2 2280, 500GB SATA. The BIOS never was able to see it either. Tried every combination in the BIOS. I brought laptop to the store where I bought it from and we were able to see the M.2 SATA drive in MiniTool. He moved the Win10 system over to the M.2 SSD and when we restarted it the ***** M.2 wasn't showing in the BIOS. Nor would it boot from it. It could only be seen when booted from MiniTool.
We then put in an M.2 500GB NMVe drive and that showed right up in the BIOS.
So there is definitely something going on with SATA SSDs and this system. I noticed here in VN they only sell the SF315-52 with a 256GB SSD, nothing higher. Judging by the constant BIOS updates and bugs for this machine, I wouldn't be surprised if there is something screwy in the BIOS preventing it from seeing > 256GB SSDs.
Thanks again for the reply and hopefully this will be addressed and prevent others from going crazy trying to get a simple drive swap working.
Side note for the SF315-52, anyone trying to load Linux on an NMVe or dual boot Linux and Win 10. Linux won"t see the NMVe drive when the BIOS drive setting is RST/Optane. For Linux Live to see the NMVe drive, it has to be set to ACHI in the BIOS. But then Windows may fail to boot, since it's not in RST/Optane anymore. The fix for that is to force restart WIn 10 in to safe mode, but before it reboots, go in to the BIOS and change it from the RST/Optane to ACHI and then let it boot. After that Linux Live will see the NMVe drive and Win 10 will also boot with no errors. Hope this saves other hours and hours of troubleshooting.
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