OCZ Vertex 2 - BSODs

Danger Phoenix · 19 Jan 2011 at 11:10

I recently bought this bundle:

OcUK Motherboard Bundle - Intel Core i5 2500K & Asus P8P67 Intel P67 Mainboard
OCZ Vertex 2 "25nm Edition" 50GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTX50G)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK)

I am having issues with the SSD. I set the RAM timings and voltages as recommended with the RAM. I set the SATA to AHCI. When installed Windows 7 x64 I get BSODs. I have run MemTest and that reports no issues. As a last test I put a normal SATA drive in and Windows installed fine on that.

So is RMA my only option now or is there anything else you guys can suggest?

MooMoo444 · 19 Jan 2011 at 11:13

Did you install W7 as AHCI or change it afterwards?

Danger Phoenix · 19 Jan 2011 at 11:29

I never actually managed to install Windows 7, but AHCI was set before I even started

Squid · 19 Jan 2011 at 11:37

Is drive still seen in bios?
Have your tried install win7 on a non SSD hard drive to eliminate the drive being the issue?
Does it blue screen after first loading screen from part one of install?
I had a issue with Vetex 2e 60gb on p67a-ud4 after the first windows installer reboot it BSODs, drives now stuck in panic mode and bios cant see it .. normal HD installed fine and stable

Danger Phoenix · 19 Jan 2011 at 12:10

Is drive still seen in bios? - Yes

Have your tried install win7 on a non SSD hard drive to eliminate the drive being the issue? - See OP

Does it blue screen after first loading screen from part one of install? - Yes, it does it at random points

Toughnoodle · 19 Jan 2011 at 12:18

Have you tried downloading the Intel RST F6 drivers for Win7 x64? There's a prompt for drivers during the few first screens of the Win7 install.

Danger Phoenix · 19 Jan 2011 at 13:32

Toughnoodle said:
Have you tried downloading the Intel RST F6 drivers for Win7 x64? There's a prompt for drivers during the few first screens of the Win7 install.

Is that not for RAID?

Squid · 19 Jan 2011 at 15:25

Plug in the SSD then boot other drives windows install , is the drive viewable / usable ?- then use ozc tool's to check if it has latest firmware.

Have you tried any other mobo bios versions?

Toughnoodle · 19 Jan 2011 at 16:21

Danger Phoenix said:
Is that not for RAID?

Nah, it's for AHCI mode too.

Danger Phoenix · 19 Jan 2011 at 16:33

Toughnoodle said:
Nah, it's for AHCI mode too.

I will try that tonight too then

Squid · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:18

Any luck?

Danger Phoenix · 21 Jan 2011 at 13:23

Figured out that it was the RAM. Ran MemTest again and it failed so RMAing them

DragonQ · 21 Jan 2011 at 15:13

Windows 7 certainly doesn't need specific drivers to install in AHCI mode. You can (and should) install specific chipset drivers once Windows is installed though.