SSD/SSHD Boot Bios bug Inspiron 7537

I have a 7537 someone gave me that wouldn't boot. After running multiple tests it seemed the 1TB SSHD drive was ok but no matter what I did it wouldn't boot in the 7537. I replaced it with a used 640GB HD I had on hand and that worked perfectly.

After running with that for a few weeks I decided the 1TB drive must be bad (intermittent). I wanted to get something faster in this laptop so I ordered a brand new 2TB Seagte Firecuda SSHD. It acted exactly the same way the old SSHD did! The only way I can get it to consistently is to boot a USB disk first (Linux Mint) then tell it to do a restart. It then sees the SSHD and boots it perfectly every time. Cold boots to the SSHD are a no go. Either gives me a read error or no bootable device. Yet if I first boot my Linux Mint 18.1 USB stick first it works after with a warm boot. I do see some strange kernel errors with ata1 while booting but the drive seems to work perfectly until I try another cold boot.

Just to make sure this wasn't something with Seaget SSHD I tried a Crucial SSD I have and it does exactly the same thing, won't cold boot (read error). I boot the Mint USB drive first and do a warm boot it works every time. None of this happens with the 640GB mechanical drive.

I am running a dual boot with Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18.1 and Grub. Legacy with secure boot off. I have tried three diferent bios versions A10, A13 and A14. All do the same thing.

Near as I can tell this must be some kind on bug with the bios not reseting the drive correctly with an SSD or SHD drive on a cold boot. Works perfectly every time if I boot a USB drive first.