M4 firmware 0309 is now available

Grimley · 30 Jan 2012 at 20:06

I've just tried to do the update on mine - iso detects the drive fine & the prompt to flash the firmware on the drive comes up - Keyboard won't work!
:mad:

any ideas please?

Nymins · 30 Jan 2012 at 20:22

Probably not the problem, but is your keyboard USB?

Could try a PS/2 keyboard if you have one about. Found sometimes my USB keyboard wouldn't work in the BIOS or at DOS, but the PS/2 worked fine.

Ntouchable · 30 Jan 2012 at 20:55

Finally....!

Kingy1968 · 31 Jan 2012 at 07:55

VortexA1 said:
ok it worked on my 6gbps port.

I havnt tried swapping the cables over yet but it def dont work on my 6gps sata port... :mad:

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 19:27

I've just got an M4 256GB SSD, and I've just flashed the firmware. All seemed to work no problem...

I checked the speed before and after (As I expected an increase in speed), and well...

Before...

After...

The speeds haven't changed much (the dials wobble around, so the speeds were practically the same)

Any ideas?

Nymins · 7 Feb 2012 at 19:34

There isn't a speed increase with 0309 as far as I'm aware :confused:

The speed bump came with an earlier firmware that all newly purchased drives should have preinstalled.

500MB read is the max you'll get at the mo.

Marky · 7 Feb 2012 at 19:42

Nymins said:
There isn't a speed increase with 0309 as far as I'm aware

The speed bump came with an earlier firmware that all newly purchased drives should have preinstalled.

500MB read is the max you'll get at the mo.

Okay doky then

Loving the SSD at the mo - so speedy

icehot · 8 Feb 2012 at 13:54

WOW

This is the first firm update I have done since owning the M4 which I bought in May 2011......

The performance increase is noticeable and very pleasing

LEK-89 · 9 Feb 2012 at 08:48

Only just seen the new update myself, I will be updating my M4 tonight.

Great work by Crucial to push out a new firmware for the 5000 hour bug so fast.

Liam

HEADRAT · 9 Feb 2012 at 09:24

I guess you could argue that the bug shouldn't have been there in the first place, doesn't say much for the QA

sachinbadiani · 11 Feb 2012 at 17:38

Just to inform you that yesterday evening I experienced the bug on a Crucial M4 64GB (rev 0002)

I noticed that when I was able to get back into windows, it would last for an hour or a bit before BSOD. During the night I did the Memtest test to make sure RAM was ok.

I then looked in another thread on this website this morning and it suggested to update firmware (and then I read on Crucial's forum). I used SSDLife to measure the "Powered On" time and it was 5217 hours. Bingo - I got something to work on!

The update was hanging on the InitDisk bit even when removing USB devices. So I transferred to another machine (both this disk and my other M4 128gb SSD). Ran the update on both SSDs. Transferred back to this machine.

All data okay. I then did a Prime 95 Test to confirm that it could not be anything else. Just came back from work. And all is well.

Summary: This firmware works and it solves the problem I had.

VortexA1 · 11 Feb 2012 at 19:51

Summary: This firmware works and it solves the problem I had.
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That's good to hear. Thanks for sharing mate.

VortexA1 · 11 Feb 2012 at 20:11

Kingy1968 said:
I havnt tried swapping the cables over yet but it def dont work on my 6gps sata port...

ohh

MrChops · 12 Feb 2012 at 23:19

Worked a treat, thanks for the info. After 8 months of hard labour my M4 is still as quick as the day it went in. Totally love my SSD :cool:

keogh · 15 Feb 2012 at 14:35

Bought one of the 256 m4's direct from the manufacturer for my imac. Turned up today, preinstalled with 0309... Just thought peeps might like to know that.

ChrisD. · 15 Feb 2012 at 14:44

HEADRAT said:
I guess you could argue that the bug shouldn't have been there in the first place, doesn't say much for the QA

I hope this is a joke.

kedge · 15 Feb 2012 at 14:50

Update went ok, all good, these drives are great in ahci or ide and on win xp or win 7, good stuff, expensive if you have a ton of data to install, i don't really have a lot of data installed on em, but ssd's are very responsive in day to day usage and gaming.

HEADRAT · 15 Feb 2012 at 15:45

MilanoChris said:
I hope this is a joke.

Not at all, why would it be a joke?

To let a product on the market that "becomes unresponsive after 5184 hours" isn't great to be honest.

Don't get me wrong it's good they fixed it and all that but surely it would have been better that this showed up in their testing before they released the product!

HEADRAT

Broken Hope · 15 Feb 2012 at 17:39

HEADRAT said:
Not at all, why would it be a joke?

To let a product on the market that "becomes unresponsive after 5184 hours" isn't great to be honest.

Don't get me wrong it's good they fixed it and all that but surely it would have been better that this showed up in their testing before they released the product!

HEADRAT

You expect them to test a drive for over 7 months of continuous 24/7 use before bringing it to the market, that seems a bit extreme?

HEADRAT · 15 Feb 2012 at 18:11

I'm sure they have ways to simulate "7 months of continuous 24/7 use"