HP Envy Select 15t BIOS/SSD Issue

Hello,
I hope this is the right forum, if not a mod can feel free to move this post. About a month ago I installed an SSD in my 15t-k000 and installed windows 7 64 bit on it. Everything is fine when the computer is up and running but occasionally when I restart/cold boot it, I get a message that says something like "No operating system detected" and then a short list of options. I have discovered that if I press F10 to open the BIOS and then simply press F10 again to save and close, the computer boots no problem. It's almost like the BIOS doesn't recognize the SSD unless I try to boot from the BIOS itself.
When I was installing windows on the computer, someone recommended that I enable "Legacy Boot" and that is still enabled in BIOS. Do I need to enable something else, or change a setting in BIOS to get it to boot directly from the SSD?
I am running the latest BIOS available in the downloads section of the main HP website.
Thanks in advance.

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Hello,
I hope this is the right forum, if not a mod can feel free to move this post. About a month ago I installed an SSD in my 15t-k000 and installed windows 7 64 bit on it. Everything is fine when the computer is up and running but occasionally when I restart/cold boot it, I get a message that says something like "No operating system detected" and then a short list of options. I have discovered that if I press F10 to open the BIOS and then simply press F10 again to save and close, the computer boots no problem. It's almost like the BIOS doesn't recognize the SSD unless I try to boot from the BIOS itself.
When I was installing windows on the computer, someone recommended that I enable "Legacy Boot" and that is still enabled in BIOS. Do I need to enable something else, or change a setting in BIOS to get it to boot directly from the SSD?
I am running the latest BIOS available in the downloads section of the main HP website.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
It could be caused by a buggy firmware on the SSD. Perhaps even the BIOS could be buggy and I don't really like what HP did with the BIOS on Windows 8 laptops. They should have abandoned the mSATA RAID for cache and enable the mSATA slot for boot.
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