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twist3d0n3

twist3d0n3

twist3d0n3

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hi guys

proper puzzler; turned on my pc this morning, it did the windows loading screen then took a hulluva long time before the vista ball thing appeared. just as i thought it was bsod. on reboot, my computer claimed there wasn't a bootable drive so, after an hour of unplugging different components, checking all connections are ok etc etc i've now got 'auto detecting SATA 1' until i ctrl alt del, whereas before it found all sata drives pretty much instantly. Looking in bios it reckons no drive is present on the sata channel the ssd is on (channel 1).

i'm stumped! methinks the drive decided it didn't like life anymore and did a lemming.

Specs are in sig

any suggestions?

cheers
 
Have you tried it on a different SATA channel on the mobo just in case it's that?

Could also try a CMOS reset too and then try itwith default BIOS setting, although you'll have to reset all your settings afterwards (if it works).

Good luck!
 
yeah i've tried a different sata channel, not tried resetting cmos as of yet; gonna try the ssd in my other rig on usb just to see if windows can detect it (and it if can i'm gonna run an integrity check).

its weird cos over the past few weeks, i've had it saying there's corruption and doing a scan just before going into windows saying everything was fine, then the other day windows wouldn't boot at all saying a registry hive was corrupt; did a repair with the vista disk, all was good for 24 hours... and now this :S

i'll let you know how it get on with the usb thing/resetting cmos!

cheers
 
hmmm interesting, on the other rig it recognises it as a usb device, but it said the device has malfunction and windows doesn't recognise it. i've had other things do that before and they've still worked but this isn't showing up in 'my computer'...

edit: i haven't updated the firmware of it (when i got it i didn't realise you could :S d'oh) and i've had it for about 6/7 months... any idea how you do it?

i'm not too worried about losing data on it as games and programs are on a trustworthy sturdy old skool hard drive :P and the beauty of steam is you don't need to reinstall all of your games, only steam hehe

the amount of problems i've had with this f'ing thing, i'm tempted just to raid up my 2x750Gb samsungs... tbh i had some old WD 80gb drives in raid 0 that kicked the balls of this drive - it had so much promise but the small file write gashness of it makes even surfing the net infuriating! /endrant lol

cheers
 
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I'm afraid to say but I think you're right and you might be better off using your other HDD's for the moment. Is your Core still in warranty - could go for RMA then see if you can trade up to the Vertex's?

Anyways, whatever you decide good luck! :)
 
yeah should still be under warranty, but the problem is as i took the sodding thing out my rig this morning a little sticker flittered off, i picked it up and read it:

"warranty void if removed" <--- now that is a kick in the balls grrrr

think i'm gonna avoid ocz and ssd's until they get a bit more mature and the £/gb ratio comes down a long way...

cheers for the help man
 
twist3d0n3 said:
yeah should still be under warranty, but the problem is as i took the sodding thing out my rig this morning a little sticker flittered off, i picked it up and read it:

"warranty void if removed" <--- now that is a kick in the balls grrrr
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Just stick it back on and hope for the best! :p

That does suck though! Its a pretty expensive failure and only only lasted a few months too! Not good!

You might as well try with an RMA, just hope for the best!
 
hehe yeah i'm gonna wack it back on and hope for the best. i've already got to RMA a logitech g15 back to ocuk so might as well try and blag it in the same delivery back to them :D

i've now got windows reinstalled back on a raid array, absolutely flies now so think i'll see if i can get them to send me something of equal value that i might need (gpu water blocks would be nice :) )
 
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