Faulty SSD?

dancook · 1 Oct 2011 at 10:48

Intel X-25M and Asus p8p67 pro.

First of all application stopped responding for period of a minute, desk apps, games etc..

Then I had problems with a corrupt o/s so reloaded windows many times.

Occasionally the SSD is not detected in BIOS.

Now I've just run chkdsk from the windows GUI on the drive (installed o/s on a mechanical drive for now). When chkdsk had finished the drive had disappeared from 'My Computer'.

I'm going to see if I can get it back to run the intel SSD toolbox - but it does sound pretty screwy.

Any thoughts? The hard drive has the latest firmware.

Philtor · 1 Oct 2011 at 19:53

Have you put the drive on it's own SATA channel? Use the first port and put everything else on the other ports. So for example on my rig I have my Vertex 2E on SATA port 1, whilst the HDD and DVD burner are on 3 and 4. Might be worth doing a BIOS update also if one is available.

Leeroy123 · 1 Oct 2011 at 20:30

Update the firmware.

dancook · 1 Oct 2011 at 21:59

Leeroy123 said:
Update the firmware.

As in my first post, I have.

I will look into the other things, thanks