Boot Drive Randomly Changed in BIOS

The PC will randomly change boot drives to some other drive, be it internal or USB attached. I thought it was my boot drive, but I recently changed it and for about a week things seemed fine. This morning, it switched to my BD_DVD drive, and when I switched it back, it reset itself back to the DVD drive. I reset again and this time it worked.
OS is Win 8.1
10 MB mem
Boot drive is 4TB, one partition (listed as 2nd drive in BIOS.)
Second drive (though listed as first in BIOS) is 3TB with no OS files on it
Multiple external drives through USB 2.0 and 3.0
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank you

Hi,
Removing the battery will invalidate the system clock and BIOS settings will be the defaults as delivered by HP.
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