Crucial m4 dead after a week.

ZcolloquialZ · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:42

My Crucial m4 128gb seems to have died.

I came out of "sleep mode" to a black screen and a pc crash....

Now windows won't boot and the BIOS is not detecting the SSD.

I know this has been an issue with OCZ brand ssd's but haven't heard of it happening to m4's.

Anyone else experienced this?

I have tried it in other sata ports and used new cables but still nothing.

DirtyJester · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:43

Tried disconnecting any other h/d's and booting into bios ?

Sounds daft I know but this happened with a 64gb SSD ages ago with me and that what I did, once in bios I reloaded default and rebooted, bingo there it was. It was in a thread on here somewhere matey, sorry can't seem to find it. Also you tried a different power cable I take it just to be sure.

ZcolloquialZ · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:49

DirtyJester said:
Tried disconnecting any other h/d's and booting into bios ?

Well yeah; I've gone into BIOS and no matter what sata ports or cables I use it dosnt detect the m4 (It did before the crash).

It still detects all my other h/d's.

CrimsonAvenger · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:50

Another PC you can try it in ?

BluSky · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:51

It is possible that you just got one from a bad batch, could technically happen to anyone from any brand. Before we go down that route though, have you been through all the basic troubleshooting 101's like unplugging all peripherals, trying other hdd's in the board, booting with only one stick of RAM etc?

If that doesn't work then RMA it

ZcolloquialZ · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:57

CrimsonAvenger said:
Another PC you can try it in ?

Unfortunately not.

I'm not sure what difference that would make? As all my Sata cables and ports are picking up anything I put into them apart from this SSD.

I have had problems with it crashing when coming out of "sleep" mode already, but this time it seems that the ssd has just died.

Looking on the web it seemed to be quite a common problem with OCZ ssd's were people have generally had no other option but to RMA.

ZcolloquialZ · 21 Nov 2011 at 15:58

BluSky said:
It is possible that you just got one from a bad batch, could technically happen to anyone from any brand. Before we go down that route though, have you been through all the basic troubleshooting 101's like unplugging all peripherals, trying other hdd's in the board, booting with only one stick of RAM etc?

If that doesn't work then RMA it

I have tried all that, other than the one stick of RAM.

I'll give that a try now.

lrlcr · 21 Nov 2011 at 16:40

Boot off a live cd and see if it can be picked up.

If not then RMA.

Threepwood · 21 Nov 2011 at 17:50

If you're using an SSD you should disable sleep mode really, not that I've ever looked into the why.

kedge · 22 Nov 2011 at 17:21

ZcolloquialZ said:
My Crucial m4 128gb seems to have died.

I came out of "sleep mode" to a black screen and a pc crash.

I did a quick search on ssd's and sleep mode, reports show a mixed bag of issues and none issues. Some say it could easily be coming from a firmware, driver, or operating system bug or combination. Others have found that hibernate modes, rather than plain sleep mode, are the root cause. Who knows?.

Do you put your SSD to sleep? - ssd - Storage

Do solid-state drives cause problems with sleep mode?