Crucial SSD, Asus P8Z68 Deluxe - Random Blue Screen / Other Issues

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Hello,

I fitted two Crucial 128GB M4 SSD's to machine with the following spec:

Asus P8Z68 Deluxe Motherboard (not GEN3) - BIOS V 3203
12GB Corsair Memory
Intel Core i7 2600
Nvidia Quadro 2000D
Seagate 1TB HDD

The Crucial SSD's replaced a Corsair Force 3 120GB drive. The objective was to place the SSD's in RAID 0 and create a boot disk for Windows 7 Professional x64 of approx 240GB.

Windows installed succesfully but things were not right. When installing drivers I would get random decompression errors, running the driver install for a second time it would install OK. Then some Windows Updates would hang for approx 20 minutes and only a reboot would get it moving again.

Later on in the install process the blue screens started, they would mostly occur when installing software or anything that required a sudden amount of data to be read. It occurred once when opening the event viewer.

I checked the firmware on the SSD's and found it to be out of date, so upgraded to V000f via a boot CD. Both were flashed OK. Blue screens continued. The motherboard BIOS was updated to V3203, blue screens continued.

Deleted the RAID set, created it again and installed Windows again, I have not yet had any blue screens but software that installed successfully will not install, still have issues with windows updates hanging. The software installs fail with random errors, mostly about being unable to access a file.

Something is not right, any suggestions as to why this hardware configuration might not work? I have previously used the same SSD setup but with the P8P67 board and it works great.

Thanks
 
The thing that worries me is the 12GB of RAM im guessing thats 1.6V? Sandybridge needs to run 1.5V, can be canged in the BIOS.

I wouldn't think it would create an error like this though.
 
Do the LPM tweak to disable power management. Also try installing the intel RST drivers before installing windows via the f6 method (or whatever it's called).
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I think this is down to a bad memory module, I have since fitted the same SSD's in an identical spec machine and have had no issues. Everything is also running quicker than before.

I will be replacing the memory and will leave memtest running for a couple of days to see what errors it throws up. All parts are approx 12 months old so hopefully memtest will error so I can get Corsair to replace.
 
I don't suppose you managed to get RAID 0 working?

My friend bought another Crucial M4 to RAID 0 it with his first one, and found that it doesn't want to work.
 
Tediore said:
I don't suppose you managed to get RAID 0 working?

My friend bought another Crucial M4 to RAID 0 it with his first one, and found that it doesn't want to work.
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Yep it works great. I have that setup on a few machines now. Obviously have to make sure the SATA controller you are using is set to RAID in the BIOS, then just configure the array using the boot configuration tool.

I am only using the Intel RST drivers that ship with Windows 7, so no need to press F6 and load the driver, but depending on your friends setup there might be other reasons it's not working.

I have only used the Asus P8Z68 and P8P67 boards for this so cannot comment on others.
 
It was a while ago now, so I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but I think it was a driver issue. He upgraded his board from an Asus P8P67 to an AsRock Z68 in the last few months, so I'm not sure which board he tried the RAID on, but I will put the suggestions forward to him.

Thanks for the reply :)
 
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